Senior Post Silicon System Validation Engineer

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. THE TEAM:The Customer Inside Solutions Engineering team is chartered with the platform enablement, solutions ramp, and product support of all server OEMs, ODMs, MDCs, and the associated extended ingredient server ecosystem. This team has platform engineering central accountability to enable our AMD partners to quickly expand their portfolio and quickly ramp these new platforms to broad launch. This consolidated organization provides the opportunity to scale emerging into new workloads while crafting new levels of efficiency with our more mature MDC and base OEM configurations.With their unified technical view of the Server BU platform portfolio, they represent the “voice of our customers” back into server development teams throughout AMD. The team will ensure we have one Platform Engineering technical voice to our customers and provide consolidated and prioritized inputs to AMD’s upstream development and planning teams.The support provided by this team encompasses delivering customer design-win and design-in work partnering on platform bring-up and debug support, ensuring the integration of AMD technologies, developing industry-wide enabling collateral, and providing technical training to key AMD sales support.The team owns all customer execution plans with a continuous focus on optimizing the path from bring-up to launch. They drive prioritization and execution of debug, root cause, and resolution for customer sightings in partnership with validation and design teams. They are the single voice communication for all critical issues involving potential recalls. And they work closely with product marketing and planning on prioritizing customer requests.THE PERSON:Technical, hands-on engineer with leadership qualities responsible for Datacenter Server SoC Post-Silicon system validation on AMD Server products. The individual will work with Architecture, FW, Validation and SW teams to develop test plans, execution plans, and debug of server CPU platform features and ingredients. This role is both breadth and depth at the server platform level.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Develop and execute feature enablement and validation test plans for SoC- and system-level SoC features across all AMD Server productsDevelop post-silicon validation infrastructure (software, hardware, automation environment, and lab setup)Test interactions between various SoC features using validation infrastructureDebug and drive root-cause analysis for SoC related issuesCollaborate with cross-functional teams in developing tools to improve SoC validation and debugPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:Experience in high speed IO protocols – PCIe, CXL, SATAExperience developing validation methodologies and infrastructureTest plan and test development experienceExperience with SoC architecture and microprocessor coresUnderstanding of modern x86 microprocessor architecture and Server platform architecture is highly desired.Participated in silicon bring up and debug, support to internal engineering teamsAble to execute and drive success of programs with multiple projects on the goUse AI to increase execution productivity and triage tasksDebug skills at both SoC and system levelFamiliarity with programming / scripting language (C/C++, Python, Perl, ...)Working knowledge of Server OSes (Linux, Windows)Must be a self-starting team player with excellent communication skills who can work with minimal guidanceForward thinker that drives improvement to development process, code architecture and fosters a spirit of innovation and continuous improvementStrong verbal and written English communication skillsWorking knowledge of lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and protocol analyzersHypervisor experience is a plus with regards to security encryption in virtualized environmentsSelf-organizing and the ability multitask based on prioritiesACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelor’s or Master’s in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or comparable disciplines. LOCATION:Penang, Malaysia#LI-CY#LI-Hybrid Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.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.AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.This posting is for an existing vacancy.