Rocm Interconnects And Memory Diagnostics Engineer – Contract

Job Opportunity at AMD

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The Role

The Diagnostics team is responsible for developing tests and suites that exercise and validate the hardware blocks in the graphics and compute processors developed at AMD. We understand the features that go into the hardware design, and we have the software skills to program them to life. Once developed these diagnostics are used in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from pre-silicon validation through the production life of the product.

The Person

The successful candidate for this role will support our Memory Diagnostics development team, where you'll gain an understanding of all the HW clients that generate memory access requests, and drive memory traffic to maximize bandwidth and stress.

Key Responsibilities

• Code, debug and optimize functional and stress tests for memory subsystem, virtualization and system-on-chip hardware IP
• Develop diagnostic tests to bring-up and validate HW features on pre-silicon environment (HW emulators) and post-silicon systems (HW silicon and platform)
• Identify and resolve chip, board and firmware issues
• Debug and root cause HW and SW issues, ensure high quality software engineering and hardware coverage bar
• Identify and drive improvements to framework and test architectures to improve HW coverage, debuggability and quality

Preferred Experience

• Experience in diagnostic, device driver or firmware/embedded SW development
• Ability to closely interact with HW designers/architects and internal validation teams to solve functional HW/SW issues and support engineers for production failures/FA
• Experience in large-scale system software development on Linux
• Experience with ROCm/HIP (or equivalent) programming
• Solid understanding of PC and GPU architecture
• Proficient in modern C++ object-oriented programming
• Experience in system-level verification and debugging
• Experience with source control systems (git)
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and teamwork skills
• Proven debugging and testing skills
• Familiar with memory subsystems and caches GDDR/DDR/DRAM memory knowledge
• Good working knowledge of PCIe and external high-speed busses
• Hands-on experience with board bring up, virtual memory, virtualization, 3D graphics
• Familiarity with operating systems concepts and kernel debug

Academic Credentials

B.Sc. in Electrical/Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent

Location: Markham, ON

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