Silicon Design Infrastructure Platform Engineer
Job Description
THE ROLE:
Seeking an experienced silicon engineer who will be part of the infrastructure resources (compute and storage) team in forecasting, allocation, and usage management for our Central Engineering team (including a significant part of IPs at AMD). The person should also be able to help to advance the space with their scripting and automation skills. They will also keep design teams efficient with excellent administration and automation of our design infrastructure platform for design data. The goal of our Central CAD team at AMD is to determine a set of standards and techniques for designing chips with the highest performance, lowest cost, and lowest power usage. We then automate these best practices into a software design flow for efficiency and consistency, and work with various design teams to put the software to use in constructing next-generation GPUs, CPUs and APUs with industry-standard EDA software tools.
THE PERSON:
You are a highly motivated self-starter with a strong sense of ownership, who is passionate about solving problems and reaching goals. You have excellent organization, communication, and interpersonal skills. You collaborate well with others on your geographically distributed team, as well as with other business units.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Analyze, adjust, and allocate the infrastructure resources based on project priority
- Assist project teams with optimizing their use of compute and storage
- Ready to be backup for other team members' function
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Relevant Experience of at least 7 years
- Excellent in silicon infrastructure resource management
- Proficient understanding of chip design tools and methodologies
- Proficient knowledge of job distribution system (e.g. LSF) and storage management (e.g. Netapp)
- Proficient knowledge of UNIX and scripting programming skills (Python, Perl, or Linux Shell)
- Proficient knowledge of Linux environments with globally networked file systems
- Experience with version control software (e.g. perforce, git) is desirable
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent is preferred.