Senior Staff Post Silicon Validation Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices; Penang; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Lead Engineer for Product Engineering in Penang, Malaysia. This role involves executing feature validation for next-gen AMD microprocessors and mentoring junior engineers. The candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve validation processes and has opportunities for significant technical influence on major projects. Ideal candidates will possess robust SoC validation experience and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Competitive benefit packages

Award-winning culture

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant disciplines with 5-10 years of experience.
• Experience in SoC Validation and Debug.
• Familiarity with programming/scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute feature enablement and validation test plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve test strategies.
• Debug and drive root-cause analysis for SoC-related issues.

Skills

Debug skills

SoC architecture

Microprocessor cores

Programming/Scripting (C/C++, Python, Perl)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Linux

Windows

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

AMD together we advance_

THE ROLE:

This is a lead engineering position responsible for Product Engineering program technical planning for next-generation AMD microprocessors. 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.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate will be capable of communicating problems, solutions, and project status up to the executive level. You will provide technical supervision or mentoring to junior engineers and influence others as a technical leader. You have the capability assuming the consultative or leadership responsibilities for large projects or product development initiatives, while dealing with internal and external groups on behalf of the group or project. This role allows the opportunity to influence technical decisions that have a significant impact on multiple products or the product line.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and execute feature enablement and validation test plans for SoC- and system-level SoC features across all AMD Server products
• Develop post-silicon validation infrastructure (software, hardware, automation environment, and lab setup)
• Test interactions between various SoC features using validation infrastructure
• Debug and drive root-cause analysis for SoC related issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in developing tools to improve SoC validation and debug
• Work with cross-functional teams to improve post-silicon validation test strategy, methodology, and process

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience being accountable for results for multiple products or large projects, as well as for management of interdependencies with related areas
• Experience with being responsible for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
• Experience with SoC architecture and microprocessor cores
• Understanding of modern x86 microprocessor architecture and Server platform architecture is highly desired
• Experience developing validation methodologies and infrastructure Test plan and test development experience
• Participated in silicon bring up and debug, support to internal engineering teams
• Able to execute and drive success of programs with multiple projects on the go
• Debug skills at both SoC and system level
• Familiarity with programming / scripting language (C/C++, Python, Perl, ...)
• Working knowledge of Server OSes (Linux, Windows)
• Forward thinker that drives improvement todevelopment process, code architecture and fosters a spirit of innovation and continuous improvement
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Master’s in computer engineering or computer science or electrical engineering, or comparable disciplines with 5-10 yrs of experience in SoC Validation and Debug.

LOCATION:

Penang, Malaysia

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