Diagnostics Software Tech Lead for SoC & Emulation

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Diagnostics/SoC software engineer to own quality, coverage, and validation of diagnostics software across SoC IPs and the data path. Collaborate with global teams, guide firmware engineers, study new features, and drive test strategies for next‑gen processors and graphics IP.

A BS/MS in CS/CE/EE and strong Linux development skills are required; knowledge of BIOS/GPU/PCIe is a plus.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Strong Linux development skills.
• Experience with BIOS, GPU, PCIe, DDR, PMU, RAS firmware is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end ownership of the quality, coverage and completeness of Diagnostics software solution to AMD Client, Graphics and Embedded.
• Highlight project goals, strategies, risks, and key requirements of Diagnostics, tools and framework to help PMs, Managers, IP validation architects and Framework architects to create the software test plan.
• Study new features and new IPs in next gen SoC product and train software engineers for designing and developing new diagnostic cases.
• Driving the technical requirements to achieve the feature coverage and hardware bug capture targets through the diag cases.
• Owns the SoC system level feature validation methodology and planning, including the multi-IP use cases verification, system level power/ performance evaluation and stress test etc.
• Owns the Diagnostics pre-silicon emulation strategy and planning across Simnow, FPGA and Emulation models, including the RTL coverage requirements before silicon tape out, Diagnostics verification strategy and requirement before silicon back.
• Collaborate with global cross functional teams to achieve the key program milestones, such as bring up, all features enablement, performance profiling, production support etc., with desired coverage metrics from Diagnostics.
• Forward thinker to improve feature coverage model, test time reduction, development process and drive innovation.
• Lead the resolution of critical technical challenges, including complex issue debugging and triage. Guide Diags IP and release engineers in root-cause analysis and test coverage enhancements

Skills

Firmware development

SoC architecture

System debugging

Linux programming

x86 architecture

Graphics software

BIOS/GPU knowledge

SoC emulation

Technical leadership

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE/EE

Tools

GCC/Clang

Job description

AMD in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Diagnostics/SoC software engineer to own quality, coverage, and validation of diagnostics software across SoC IPs and the data path. Collaborate with global teams, guide firmware engineers, study new features, and drive test strategies for next‑gen processors and graphics IP.

A BS/MS in CS/CE/EE and strong Linux development skills are required; knowledge of BIOS/GPU/PCIe is a plus.