Senior Automation Engineer — Scalable CI & Test Platform

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our automation infrastructure team. You will design, build, and maintain the platform that runs large-scale test execution across Linux and Windows and hardware emulation platforms, focusing on the framework, execution engine, CI pipelines, scheduling, and reporting.

You will collaborate with validation, design, and tools teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that support AMD’s server, data center, client, and embedded products.

Qualifications

• Solid software engineering experience building automation, tooling, or infrastructure, with strong proficiency in Python and shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining software across both Linux and Windows environments.
• Experience designing or operating regression / CI systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent) and job schedulers such as LSF or Slurm.
• Experience designing databases and services to manage large volumes of assets, releases, and results, and building reporting / dashboards over them.
• Experience with QEMU or similar software emulation/virtualization platforms for running and scaling test workloads
• Comfort operating compute and storage resources at scale, optimizing throughput, reliability, and turnaround time.
• Working knowledge of version control (Git), build systems, and general DevOps / release-engineering practices.
• Familiarity with running workloads on hardware emulation platforms (e.g., Synopsys ZeBu, Cadence Palladium, or Siemens Veloce) as an execution target is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and debug skills, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a distributed, global team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain continuous integration and regression environments that run large-scale test suites – owned by validation, design, and other teams – across Linux and Windows platforms.
• Design and maintain a scalable execution engine to efficiently utilize machine and storage resources.
• Design and maintain databases to manage assets, releases, and results.
• Integrate and support hardware emulation platforms as an execution target within the automation flow.
• Improve our validation automation eco-system and infrastructure.
• Influence and align other tools teams to converge on common CI / regression methodologies.
• Collaborate with other tools teams, Architects, and the Design & Verification team to ensure quality releases and clear presentation of complex results.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Windows

CI systems

LSF/Slurm

Databases

QEMU/Emulation

DevOps

Git

Debugging

Distributed teams

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/CE/EE

Job description

AMD is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our automation infrastructure team. You will design, build, and maintain the platform that runs large-scale test execution across Linux and Windows and hardware emulation platforms, focusing on the framework, execution engine, CI pipelines, scheduling, and reporting.

You will collaborate with validation, design, and tools teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that support AMD’s server, data center, client, and embedded products.