Post-Silicon Electrical Validation Engineer for Server & AI

AMD; George Town; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

AMD in Penang, Malaysia is seeking a highly motivated Member of Technical Staff, Post-Silicon Electrical Validation Engineer to join the Server Compute and Enterprise AI Validation team.

You will validate high-speed I/O interfaces, design validation plans, perform electrical characterization, and collaborate with architecture, silicon design, and platform teams to ensure robustness from bring-up to production.

Qualifications

• Experience in post-silicon validation, electrical characterization, hardware development, or system-level debug.
• Knowledge of high-speed interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, LPDDR, or related technologies.
• Experience using high-speed measurement and debug equipment including oscilloscopes, TDRs, VNAs, protocol analyzers, or equivalent tools.
• Familiarity with scripting or programming languages such as Python, C/C++, Perl, or similar.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a global engineering environment.
• Experience with server, datacenter, or AI product validation.
• Knowledge of JEDEC memory standards, PCIe compliance testing, signal integrity, and PHY characterization.
• Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments. Familiarity with validation automation frameworks and large-scale regression systems.
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar engineering collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Validation Strategy & Execution: Develop and execute post-silicon validation plans for high-speed I/O interfaces.
• Define validation requirements, test coverage, and success criteria for platform functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Design and execute electrical characterization, compliance, interoperability, and stress test scenarios.
• Validate features including link training, equalization, power management, bandwidth scaling, and platform enablement.
• Electrical Characterization & Debug: Perform hands-on measurements and analysis using lab equipment.
• Conduct margining experiments, PHY analysis, and electrical characterization to optimize performance.
• Investigate and debug silicon, platform, firmware, software, and hardware interactions.
• Drive root-cause analysis and collaborate on corrective actions and long-term solutions.
• Automation & Methodology Development: Develop and maintain automation frameworks, test scripts, and regression environments.
• Enhance validation methodologies, coverage, and workflows; support data collection, correlation, analysis, and reporting.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with silicon design, architecture, signal integrity, platform engineering, BIOS, firmware, software, and quality teams; align with globally distributed teams.
• Technical Leadership & Knowledge Sharing: Provide guidance to junior engineers and contribute to best practices and technical documentation.

Skills

Post-silicon validation

Electrical characterization

High-speed interfaces

Lab debugging

Python/C/C++/Perl

Problem solving

Communication & collaboration

Server/datacenter/AI validation

Linux/Windows server

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline

Tools

Oscilloscopes

TDRs

VNAs

Protocol analyzers

Automation frameworks

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

AMD in Penang, Malaysia is seeking a highly motivated Member of Technical Staff, Post-Silicon Electrical Validation Engineer to join the Server Compute and Enterprise AI Validation team.

You will validate high-speed I/O interfaces, design validation plans, perform electrical characterization, and collaborate with architecture, silicon design, and platform teams to ensure robustness from bring-up to production.