Senior Post Silicon Validation Engineer (PCIe / HSIO)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Bayan Lepas; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Senior Product Development engineer to drive technical decisions and coordinate across business, design, validation and product engineering teams.

You will influence multiple products, own test plans for high-speed interfaces, and lead root-cause analysis while improving cost and yield in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a related engineering field.
• Strong scripting (Perl, Ruby, shell) and OS proficiency.
• Statistical analysis skills for data-driven decisions.
• Solid understanding of computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design, validation and architecture teams for content coverage and debugging.
• Develop test program infrastructure using best-known methods.
• Lead process improvements and drive changes across the team.
• Plan product improvement activities to reduce cost and improve yield.
• Lead validation of PCIe and high-speed I/O interfaces and develop test plans.
• Perform root-cause analysis for high-speed signals and interoperability issues.

Skills

Perl

Ruby

Shell script

Linux

Unix

Windows OS

Statistics

Computer architecture

Education

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

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world's most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou'redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger- technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we'll 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:

A successful candidate is one who can drive technical decisions independently, has accountability for accuracy, reliability and completeness of assignment results critical to the project’s success. This role allows the opportunity to influence technical decisions that have a significant impact on multiple products or the product line.

KEY 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
• Solves sophisticated, novel, and non-recurring problems; initiates significant changes to existing processes/ methods and leads development and implementation
• Identify and plan product improvement activities to reduce cost, improve yield and resolve quality issues
• Lead functional and compliance validation of PCIe and other high-speed I/O interfaces (e.g., xGMI, CXL, USB, SATA) across the product roadmap, owning test plan development for link training/LTSSM, speed and width negotiation, equalization, power management states (ASPM, L1 substates), and error handling/recovery, from early silicon bring-up through production sign-off.
• Drive root cause analysis on complex HSIO signal integrity and protocol-level failures using protocol analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, and eye-diagram/margin analysis, distinguishing silicon defects from board-level SI issues, firmware bugs, and third-party interoperability problems, and driving resolution with design, firmware, and PHY teams.
• Plan and execute multi-vendor interoperability and PCI-SIG compliance testing across a broad ecosystem of endpoints, switches, and root complexes, representing the team at compliance workshops and owning the errata/known-issues documentation that informs respin and workaround decisions.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with being responsible for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
• Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, shell script
• Proficient in Linux, Unix, or Windows OS
• Statistical analysis experience to resolve population mean and outliers
• Deep knowledge of computer architecture is preferred

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer engineering or computer science or electrical engineering, or comparable disciplines.

LOCATION:

Penang, Malaysia

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