Sr. Staff - Core Systems Validation Engineer

Lead Systems Design Engineer

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The Role: We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD's product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

The Person: As a Leader in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your software systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards product development, definition, and root cause resolution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
• Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs
• Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
• Working closely with supporting technical teams
• Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks
• Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams

Preferred Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in System Validation and Hardware Design Validation
• Strong understanding of core architecture; experience in core validation is a plus
• Familiarity with multiple operating systems and OS-based workloads/benchmarks
• 5+ years of programming/scripting experience in languages such as C/C++, Perl, Ruby, and Python
• Proficient in debugging techniques and methodologies
• Experience in software programming and tool management is an advantage
• Extensive expertise in board/platform-level debugging, including delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization
• Deep knowledge of system architecture, technical debugging, and validation strategies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and capable of independently driving tasks to completion

Academic Credentials: Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering

Location: Austin, TX