Sr. Software System Designer

AMDs Strategic Silicon Solutions group is responsible for custom silicon solutions for advanced gaming platforms such as XBOX, PlayStation, Steam Deck. As a Post-Silicon Validation Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring our custom silicon products meet AMD s quality standards and achieve production quality. To do this, you will interact with the architecture, software, customer, and other teams to develop a deep understanding of Software and Firmware feature requirements, develop testcases to validate the product meets specifications, and contribute to overall quality of deliverables.

THE PERSON:

• Enthusiastic about post silicon validation, debugging boards and enjoys solving complex problems.
• Excellent problem solving and programming skills.
• Advocate of quality, lean process and up to date with latest validation or testing trends.
• Worked in a multi-geo projects and teams.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator.
• Your curiosity will drive your learning and innovation to improve how we as a group and an organization.
• Self-driven, enjoys new challenges and quickly adapts to change in a fast-moving environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support weekly / bi-weekly BIOS and Driver releases working with SWQA leads.
• Leverage prior experience to improve test coverage and quality of software / firmware components that implement AMD IPs CPU, Graphics, Multimedia, Display, Security etc
• Automation first mindset and goes beyond call of duty identify way to bring in lean way of execution without compromising quality.
• Managing internal and external stakeholders
• Develop technical relationships with peers
• Be accountable for software release testing on assigned programs.
• Collaborate with QA and/or post-silicon validation communities within AMD to share ideas, get up to date with testing trends and implement best practices.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Seasoned post-silicon validation engineer experienced in one or more domains - CPU, Graphics, Multimedia, Display, Security, NPU, and/or BIOS
• Experience post-silicon validation on different OS platforms like Windows, Linux,
• Knowledge of x86, ARM and RISC V Architecture
• Hardware board bring up and debugging.
• Test Automation and Programming (Python, Perl, etc)
• Structured communication and presentation.
• Experience working in a fast paced matrixed and multi-site technical organization
• Experience working directly with external customers and partners

NICE TO HAVE EXPERIENCE:

• Continuous Integration and continuous delivery (Jenkins, Hudson, Azure etc)
• Configuration management and tools (GitHub, Gerrit etc)
• Applied/or leveraged AI / ML tools for improving execution efficiency and productivity improvements.