Senior Virtual Platform Modeling Architect

Advanced Micro Devices; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices is seeking a Virtual Platform Functional Modeling Engineer to build scalable pre-silicon validation environments. You will integrate CPU/GPU/AI models, memory hierarchies, and interconnects across distributed simulations, collaborating with cross-functional teams across locations.

You will contribute to model interfaces, validation strategies, and automation, driving readiness for AMD's next-generation platforms while leveraging SystemC, Simics, and QEMU facilities in a

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

C++

System modeling

Architecture knowledge

Debugging

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering/ Electrical Engineering/ Computer Science

Master's degree

Tools

SystemC/TLM-2.0

Arm Fast Models

Simics

QEMU

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices is seeking a Virtual Platform Functional Modeling Engineer to build scalable pre-silicon validation environments. You will integrate CPU/GPU/AI models, memory hierarchies, and interconnects across distributed simulations, collaborating with cross-functional teams across locations.

You will contribute to model interfaces, validation strategies, and automation, driving readiness for AMD's next-generation platforms while leveraging SystemC, Simics, and QEMU facilities in a