Senior Virtual Platform Engineer – Pre-Silicon Modeling

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a Virtual Platform Functional Modeling Engineer to help build a scalable pre-silicon modeling environment for CPUs, GPUs, AI, and adaptive computing platforms.

You will collaborate across architecture, firmware, software, emulation, and validation teams to deliver a framework, infrastructure, and methodologies powering AMD's virtual platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field preferred.
• Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with firmware, software, validation, and emulation teams to enhance virtual platform capabilities and enable complex workload execution.
• Define and implement inter-node communication behavior within distributed simulation environments, including message ordering, flow control, protocol state machines, and error handling mechanisms.
• Design and improve simulation orchestration services, including job scheduling, synchronization, logging, replay, and deterministic execution capabilities.
• Develop model interfaces, adapters, communication frameworks, and platform assembly methodologies that enable scalable system integration.
• Create validation strategies, regression suites, debug infrastructure, trace capabilities, and CI/CD automation to ensure model quality and reliability.
• Partner with architecture, firmware, software, and system validation teams to align virtual platform functionality with product and platform requirements.
• Evaluate commercial, open-source, and internally developed technologies that improve modeling productivity and platform scalability.
• Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing, training, and engagement with industry partners and open-source communities.

Skills

Functional modeling

Virtual platform

C++

System modeling

CI/CD

Debugging

Architecture knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering/CS

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SystemC/TLM-2.0

Arm Fast Models

Simics

QEMU

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a Virtual Platform Functional Modeling Engineer to help build a scalable pre-silicon modeling environment for CPUs, GPUs, AI, and adaptive computing platforms.

You will collaborate across architecture, firmware, software, emulation, and validation teams to deliver a framework, infrastructure, and methodologies powering AMD's virtual platform capabilities.