CPU Core Physical Design Engineer 

In this role, you drive the physical design of microprocessors, balancing power, performance and area to meet business needs. You will lead and mentor a team of senior engineers, collaborating with cross-functional partners to refine area, timing and power targets. You contribute technically at the executive level and help scale productivity with AI-enhanced tools. This position offers a meaningful impact on the next generation of AMD CPUs and AI-enabled compute platforms.

• Serve as the primary technical contact for your focus area
• Collaborate with peers in technology and design reviews
• Quantify impacts of technology issues in design reviews
• Represent the CPU Cores to executive management from a technical perspective
• Work cross-functionally to identify/assess complex issues and develop solutions
• Coordinate with design teams for area and floorplan refinement, timing targets, and power targets
• Leverage AI to boost personal productivity and contribute to agentic AI tooling for the broader team

• Experience leading technical teams
• Experience in high-speed microprocessor designs
• Full-Chip Floor planning
• Full-Chip Timing
• DRC/LVS at partition and/or Full-Chip level
• Ability to generate new design ideas and flows
• Knowledge of current sub-micron technologies
• Solid understanding of physical design tools and flows or custom circuit design

• excellent communication and presentation skills
• collaboration with top engineers
• mentoring and guiding junior teammates
• high-speed microprocessor design
• Full-Chip Floor planning
• Full-Chip Timing