Virtual Software Modeling Engineer

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.

THE ROLE

Bring leading-edge SoCs to life by building and evolving the infrastructure that powers our virtual simulation platforms. In this role, you will modernize the simulator codebase, enhance build and packaging systems, and design scalable infrastructure to support distributed, cloud-based, and multi-threaded simulation. While some model development and integration will be involved, your primary impact will be ensuring the simulator itself is robust, maintainable, and scalable—ready to support the next generation of internal and external users. This is a highly visible role with broad technical scope, requiring collaboration across architecture, modeling, software, and external partners to maintain the simulator as a first-class engineering platform.

THE PERSON

You are a systems-oriented software engineer who enjoys improving large, complex codebases and building developer-friendly infrastructure. You prioritize clarity, maintainability, and correctness, and are motivated to modernize legacy systems. You thrive at the intersection of build systems, runtime infrastructure, performance, and developer tooling. You are comfortable working across organizational boundaries and are driven to enable others to be more productive.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Evolve the simulator’s core infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity
Maintain and improve dependency management and build systems to increase reliability, reproducibility, and performance
Develop and enhance tooling for packaging, deployment, and consumption across multiple environments
Modernize the simulator codebase using current C++ standards and best practices to improve readability, structure, and long-term sustainability
Design and implement infrastructure to support simulation as a cloud-hosted service
Build infrastructure for distributed, multi-host simulation, including coordination, synchronization, and performance optimization
Create tools and frameworks to debug multi-threaded simulation execution effectively
Define processes and infrastructure to simplify integration, validation, and long-term maintenance of third-party and external models
Collaborate with model developers to ensure infrastructure evolves with modeling needs without tightly coupling to specific implementations
Improve simulator stability, observability, and debuggability through enhanced logging, diagnostics, and tooling
Leverage AI-based tools in daily workflows to maximize efficiency and code quality

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• High-performance systems and application development in C/C++ on Windows and/or Linux
• Hardware system architecture and subsystem interface protocols
• x86, ARM, or GPU architecture, drivers, and applications
• Linux and/or Windows kernel debugging
• Functional modeling, architecture simulation, or hypervisor development
• Experience with tools such as QEMU, VirtualBox, or SIMICS

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field preferred.

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