Post-Silicon Power & DVFS Debug Engineer

AMD; George Town; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in Penang, Malaysia seeks a technical, hands‑on engineer responsible for post‑silicon manufacturing validation and debug of AMD Data Center GPU products, owning power, thermal, voltage, and frequency characterization.

Responsibilities include defining robust post‑silicon test plans, deep root‑cause analysis, PPA optimization, DVFS validation, and data‑driven yield improvements across multi‑team collaboration to accelerate volume production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electronics / Mechanical Engineering related with a minimum 5‑7 years of experience in SoC thermal validation and debug.

Responsibilities

• Manufacturing Test Coverage Development: Define and deploy robust post‑silicon manufacturing test plans to ensure comprehensive coverage across power, thermal, voltage, and frequency operating conditions.
• Silicon Debug & Root Cause Analysis: Lead deep‑dive debug of manufacturing and system‑level failures, driving rapid root cause identification across silicon, firmware, platform, and test infrastructure.
• PPA Optimization & Characterization: Analyze PPA (Power, Performance, Area) trade‑offs and optimize coverage to ensure product meets performance targets while maintaining thermal and power efficiency across HVM conditions.
• Voltage/Frequency & Thermal Validation: Validate stability and guard‑banding across DVFS states, thermal corners, and real‑world workloads to ensure robust operation under diverse deployment scenarios.
• Yield & Quality Improvement: Drive data‑driven insights from manufacturing and field returns to improve test effectiveness, enhance fault detection, and increase final product yield and reliability.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with silicon design, firmware, platform, and manufacturing teams to close gaps, implement design/test fixes, and enable scalable validation flows for volume production.

Skills

Post‑Silicon Debug

PPA / PTVF knowledge

Manufacturing Test & Coverage

Hands‑On Debug

Cross‑Layer Debug

Data Analytics

High‑Performance Platform

Cross‑Functional Leadership

Education

Bachelors degree or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Job description

AMD in Penang, Malaysia seeks a technical, hands‑on engineer responsible for post‑silicon manufacturing validation and debug of AMD Data Center GPU products, owning power, thermal, voltage, and frequency characterization.

Responsibilities include defining robust post‑silicon test plans, deep root‑cause analysis, PPA optimization, DVFS validation, and data‑driven yield improvements across multi‑team collaboration to accelerate volume production.