Systems Design Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Austin, TX (Job ID 52618-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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THE ROLE:  

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Senior 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:  

AMD is seeking an emulation system engineer who thrives in an environment that requires creative debugging skills, drive to improve pre-silicon system validation coverage capabilities, and a passion for improving our overall Shift-Left strategies and goals. As a Systems Design Engineer, 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:  

• Responsible for the design and development of test environment components to support the pre-silicon validation of embedded firmware, BIOS code features, SW and directed tests. 
• Responsible for writing directed tests to verify features in a co-simulated and emulated/FPGA hardware environment.
• Responsible for writing monitors and checkers to support end-to-end firmware/hardware validation.
• Responsible for writing and developing coverage goals and test plans. 
• Responsible for running emulator workloads to test new feature
• Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
• Experience developing System Verilog based test content.
• Experience developing C+, Perl, Ruby, Shell and TCL test content.
• Experience validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment.
• Experience debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps.
• Experience debugging software using debuggers and trace files.  
• Knowledge of UEFI, core-boot, Chrome, Windows Operating Systems
• Knowledge of low power and secure boot features
• Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
• Knowledge of one or more protocols; SPI, DDR, SATA, USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI, WLAN or I2C

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering 

Location: 

Austin, TX

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.