Lead Silicon Validation Engineer — Hybrid (Penang)

Advanced Micro Devices; Penang; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices in Penang, Malaysia, is seeking a specialized engineering professional to lead product engineering program technical planning for next-generation AMD microprocessors. You will be a key tech contact across design, validation and product engineering teams, contributing to robust development and timely decisions.

The role requires mentoring junior engineers, driving complex technical decisions, and owning end-to-end debugging of post-silicon issues within the Instinct GPU

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or related field.
• Experience supervising or mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across hardware/software boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design, validation, and architecture teams for content coverage, test pattern development, validation, and debugging.
• Develop test program infrastructure incorporating latest Best-Known methods.
• Solve sophisticated, novel, and non-recurring problems; lead changes to processes/methods and implementation.
• Identify and plan product improvement activities to reduce cost, improve yield and resolve quality issues.
• Own end-to-end functional debug of post-silicon issues across the Instinct GPU roadmap, driving root cause isolation across hardware, firmware, and software layers by correlating lab data with system-level symptoms, and partnering with design, firmware, and architecture teams to converge on fixes or documented workarounds.
• Develop, maintain, and expand functional test content and debug infrastructure to increase bring-up and regression coverage across new Instinct silicon revisions, enabling faster triage as the program scales.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex, intermittent, or cross-functional bugs, mentoring junior validation engineers on debug methodology and communicating findings and risks to management.

Skills

Mentoring juniors

System debugging

Post-silicon validation

Root cause analysis

Hardware-software integration

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in computer engineering / computer science / electrical engineering

Tools

Perl

Ruby

Shell scripting

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices in Penang, Malaysia, is seeking a specialized engineering professional to lead product engineering program technical planning for next-generation AMD microprocessors. You will be a key tech contact across design, validation and product engineering teams, contributing to robust development and timely decisions.

The role requires mentoring junior engineers, driving complex technical decisions, and owning end-to-end debugging of post-silicon issues within the Instinct GPU