HSIO Validation Staff Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices; Penang; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Penang, Malaysia, is seeking a Senior Product Development Engineer. This role focuses on electrical validation within product development, requiring extensive expertise in hardware architecture and design. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of relevant experience, specifically in IO electrical validation strategies and hands-on measurements. The company offers a competitive benefits package and fosters a collaborative work culture.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Award-winning culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in hardware architecture and logic/circuit design.
• Familiarity with DDR4/5, LPDDR4/5 standards, and PCIe4/5.
• Experience with programming/scripting languages such as C/C++, Python, Perl.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop IO electrical validation requirements.
• Collaborate with design teams during Pre-Si stages.
• Hands-on measurement and characterization of Post-Si interfaces.

Skills

Hardware architecture

Logic/circuit design

C/C++ programming

Python scripting

High speed circuit testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscope

TDR

VNA

Logic Analyzer

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.

Together, we advance your career.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Product Development engineer, you will collaborate with various Product Development Groups. This individual serves as a critical technical point of contact to the business, design, platform validation and product engineering teams. We have competitive benefit packages and an award-winning culture. Join us!

THE PERSON

In this role, you will be part of a dynamic team performing electrical validation of Datacenter Server SoC Post-Silicon IO interface, in a way that is end to end customer focused, innovative, efficient and drives highest quality standards. It requires both pre and post Si engagement and close collaborations within and outside the team to ensure design and test content robustness, ultimately delivering highest quality products to customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• In this role responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
• Define and develop IO electrical validation requirements and electrical test coverages to guarantee compliance and success of the Server SoC devices at platform level.
• Develop IO electrical validation strategies plans and schedules by integrating different requirements from various engineering and business departments
• Driving exploration of IO electrical validation methodology platform and infrastructure enablement to improve process and throughput.
• Collaborate, review and influence design teams including hardware/packaging/board/platform during Pre-Si stage to ensure Pre-Si IO electrical simulation quality adhere to spec, to develop reference platform and to ensure validation hooks and dft availability.
• Hands‑on measurement and characterization of Post‑Si IO electrical interfaces performance using hardware lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, TDR, VNA, logic analyzer, BERTScope, probing stations and etc.
• Own, drive and debug Post‑Si electrical bugs and performance marginality with hardware/BIOS/Firmware/Operating System implementations and recommends solutions.
• Support system and tester level validation teams to identify and close analog and electrical issues.
• Analysis and disposition of early customer returns to drive understanding of design marginalities or develop test content to screen these units where needed.
• As part of a highly technical team, you will have the opportunity to innovate on and establish new test methodology, as well as new test development process improvements. Drive test optimizations to reduce test cost, enhance product quality, improve efficiency and accelerate stability.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience with:
• Hardware architecture, logic/circuit design and implementation
• Experience with any of the following DDR4/5, LPDDR4/5, U/R/LR DIMM JEDEC standards, PCIe4/5
• Familiarity with programming / scripting language (C/C++, Python, Perl, ...)
• Familiarity with DFT, hardware testing methods and tools
• Working knowledge of Server OSes (Linux, Windows Server)
• Familiarity with High speed circuit testing (oscilloscope and JBERT usage)

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Candidate must possess a Bachelor degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent with desired experience in analog/logic validation and characterization.

LOCATION

Penang, Malaysia

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.