MTS Software Development Eng.

THE ROLE: 

AMD is looking for a specialized software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.   

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.   

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Work with AMD's architecture specialists to improve future products  
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts 
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture 
• Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies 
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups  
• Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work 
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Engineers with at least 3 years of experience with BIOS, firmware, or system software development
• Good knowledge about ACPI, USB, PCIE, SATA and other PC industry standard
• Good at X86 assembly and C language
• Familiar with at least one BIOS code base (AMI, Insyde or UDK open source)
• UEFI experience is required
• Experience in BSP development/Boot loader (uBoot)/CoreBoot is a plus
• Experience in BIOS related tools development is a plus
• Experience in Video BIOS development is a plus.