Senior Domain Validation Engineer - Power & SoC (Hybrid)

Advanced Micro Devices; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 112,000; Full time

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is seeking a Lead Domain Validation Engineer in Markham, ON, to drive IP domain and power-management validation for Data Center GPU products. You will own validation strategy, plan, and execution across emulation, bring-up, and post-silicon stages, collaborating with architecture, design, firmware, diagnostics, and platform teams.

The ideal candidate leads debugging efforts, performs root-cause analysis, and ensures closure while mentoring engineers and shaping

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
• Strong experience in semiconductor validation, silicon bring-up, SoC validation, firmware validation, or hardware/software integration.
• Proficiency in Python and C/C++ for automation, test infrastructure, or debug-analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Own SMU hardware validation planning and execution across emulation, ASIC bring-up, post-silicon enablement, regression, and sustaining phases.
• Develop validation plans for SMU sub-blocks and power-management features, including bootcode, clocking, fuse, SMN, SMUIO, thermal, RSMU, security-related interactions, and other system-management functions.
• Lead debug triage, root-cause analysis, and issue closure across hardware, firmware, platform, diagnostics, and system-level interactions.
• Partner with architecture, design, firmware, diagnostics, platform, automation, customer engineering, and program teams to align scope, risks, dependencies, and exit criteria.
• Build and improve automation, validation content, debug-analysis scripts, and regression checks to improve coverage, efficiency, and repeatability.
• Review RTL, specifications, firmware interfaces, register maps, and validation collateral toidentifycoverage gaps and improve validation effectiveness.
• Support lab-based and system-level debug using platform tools, firmware logs, register-level analysis, and standard measurement equipment.
• Support customer and sustaining issues by providing SMU technicalexpertise, debug guidance, and issue-resolution support.
• Mentor engineers andhelp improve team validationmethodology, debug practices, and product quality.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Linux

Debugging

System-level validation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

Emulation

FPGA

PCIe

Register maps

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is seeking a Lead Domain Validation Engineer in Markham, ON, to drive IP domain and power-management validation for Data Center GPU products. You will own validation strategy, plan, and execution across emulation, bring-up, and post-silicon stages, collaborating with architecture, design, firmware, diagnostics, and platform teams.

The ideal candidate leads debugging efforts, performs root-cause analysis, and ensures closure while mentoring engineers and shaping