AI Rack Validation Lead — System & Debug

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks a Lead System Validation Engineer for AI Rack Validation to join the post-silicon validation team.

You will lead validation strategies across AI server platforms and coordinate with architecture, hardware, firmware, software, and platform engineering to ensure robust debug throughput and high-quality silicon. You will define validation plans, drive automation, and mentor engineers to improve methodologies and tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in electrical or computer engineering preferred.
• Extensive experience in validation roles involving debugging OS, FW, Silicon, and HW issues.
• Strong knowledge of X86 architecture, SoC design, memory, RAS & power management.
• Understanding of PCIe and CXL and their software stacks.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Detail-oriented, highly organized, able to prioritize and juggle multiple work streams.

Responsibilities

• Lead system-level, rack-level, and cluster-scale validation strategy for AI and machine learning server platforms.
• Define and drive comprehensive validation plans covering customer deployment scenarios across scale-up and scale-out environments.
• Develop validation methodologies and test strategies spanning CPU, GPU, memory, BIOS, BMC, networking, storage, platform firmware, operating systems, and infrastructure components.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, firmware, software, and platform engineering teams to define validation requirements, identify coverage gaps, and improve product quality.
• Lead investigation and root cause analysis of complex hardware, firmware, software, networking, and system integration issues.
• Drive technical decision-making within the validation organization and influence cross-functional teams to resolve risks and quality concerns.
• Establish validation readiness criteria, quality metrics, and coverage strategies that improve execution efficiency.

Skills

System validation

OS debugging

Hardware debugging

Team leadership

Communication

Program management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in electrical or computer engineering

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks a Lead System Validation Engineer for AI Rack Validation to join the post-silicon validation team.

You will lead validation strategies across AI server platforms and coordinate with architecture, hardware, firmware, software, and platform engineering to ensure robust debug throughput and high-quality silicon. You will define validation plans, drive automation, and mentor engineers to improve methodologies and tooling.