Staff Systems Design Engineer

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THE ROLE

Technical, hands-on engineer responsible for Datacenter Server SoC Post-Silicon features validation and enablement at the silicon SoC level up through BIOS, system firmware, and OS levels on AMD Server products. This individual will be primarily responsible for interfacing with silicon, firmware, and platform design groups to develop and execute validation test plans for Datacenter Server SoC products during emulation and post-silicon bring-up / validation, to debug SoC feature issues, and to run and maintain validation infrastructure.

THE PERSON

As a Leader in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated platform test solutions. In this high visibility position, your systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards product post silicon validation development, platform level debugging and root cause resolution.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop and execute feature enablement and validation test plans for SoC- and system-level SoC features across all AMD Server products
Develop post-silicon validation infrastructure (software, hardware, automation environment, and lab setup)
Test interactions between various SoC features using validation infrastructure
Debug and drive root-cause analysis for SoC related issues
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in developing tools to improve SoC validation and debug
Work with cross-functional teams to improve post-silicon validation test strategy, methodology, and process

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Experience with SoC architecture and microprocessor cores
Understanding of modern x86 microprocessor architecture and Server platform architecture is highly desired
Experience developing validation methodologies and infrastructure
Test plan and test development experience
Participated in silicon bring up and debug, support to internal engineering teams
Able to execute and drive success of programs with multiple projects on the go
Debug skills at both SoC and system level
Familiarity 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 guidance
Forward thinker that drives improvement to development process, code architecture and fosters a spirit of innovation and continuous improvement
Strong verbal and written English communication skills
Working knowledge on platform security, secure boot and encryption
Hypervisor experience is a plus with regards to security encryption in virtualized environments
Self-organizing and the ability multitask based on priorities

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electronics / Computer Science related with 5-10 years of experience in SoC validation and debug.

LOCATION:

Penang, Malaysia

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