Solution Validation Engineer--FPGA/SoC

Advanced Micro Devices; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Santa Clara region offers a challenging role to design and validate FPGA-based systems. You will work on RTL for high-speed interfaces, embedded software, and system-level bring-up across multiple architectures including ARM and RISC-V cores.

You will collaborate across sites/time zones, perform pre-silicon verification, and drive board bring-up through validation and integration with Vivado/Vitis toolchains. Strong communication and mentoring skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on FPGA designs.
• Strong SystemVerilog/Verilog and Vivado proficiency.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces and real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and validation of FPGA IPs across the product cycle.
• Collaborate with architects, hardware and firmware teams for feature scoping.
• RTL development in SystemVerilog/Verilog for PCIe, DDR5/6, USB, SerDes.
• Embed firmware and low-level system software for ARM/RISC-V cores.
• Perform pre/post-Si verification and board bring-up, validation.
• Develop System Level designs using Vivado/Vitis toolchains.

Skills

FPGA design

SystemVerilog

Verilog/VHDL

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Vivado

Board bring-up

Python/Tcl

Education

Bachelors or Masters in EE/Computer Engineering

Tools

Yocto

Git

Linux

HDL simulators

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

Join our team to build and validate hardware/software co-design solutions for FPGA-based Systems. The work spans AVB, networking, storage, automotive, aerospace, and emerging AI/ML workloads. You will design high-performance FPGA Solutions and the embedded software that drives them

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for system architecture, digital & embedded design, and system-level validation. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take a technical role across every phase of the product cycle starting from exploration, architecture, implementation, prototyping, validation, productization, and support, covering architecture, design, and hardware validation of IPs.
• Work with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to scope new features to be developed.
• RTL Development: Design, verify, and validate high-performance logic in SystemVerilog/Verilog, focused on the data and control path. You will be working with the latest generation of interfaces such as PCIe (Gen 6/7), LPDDR5/6, HDMI 2.1, DP 2.1, USB3.1, UFS 4.0, Image Sensors, MIPI-CPHY etc.
• Embedded System Development: Write firmware and low-level system software for the on-chip ARM Cortex (APU/RPU) or RISC-V soft cores. Build and customize embedded Linux images using Yocto-based Embedded Design Flow, including BSP configuration, device trees & kernel/rootfs tuning, and custom recipe and layer development for board-specific software stacks.
• System-Level Integration: Use the AMD (Xilinx) Vivado and Vitis ecosystems to integrate custom IPs with the Network on Chip (NoC), memory, and other subsystems and bring-up Baremetal/Linux for System Level Bring-up and Validation
• Pre-Si Verification: Run pre-silicon verification and emulation to confirm functional correctness and performance.
• Board Bring-Up & Validation: Support new board bring-up from first power-on through a stable, validated platform. Create System Level Designs to validate clocking, resets, memory and other interfaces using the Vivado and Vitis / EDF Tool Chains. Support the boards team with the bench setup and scripts needed to complete bring-up and board validation
• Post-Si Validation: Run post-silicon validation and debug the interactions between embedded software, hard & soft IPs, and the FPGA fabric.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Core profile: FPGA design, high-speed digital, hardware debug, embedded SW and systems design.

• 8+ years of hands-on FPGA designs.
• Strong SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL, with proven AMD/Xilinx FPGA work and strong Vivado proficiency.
• Deep knowledge of clocking, CDC, multi-clock systems, timing closure, XDC/SDC constraints, and static timing analysis.
• Experience designing high-reliability, low-latency/high-throughput, deterministic, real-time systems.
• Working knowledge of SystemVerilog testbenches.
• Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx embedded Linux flows: building and customizing images with Yocto-based Embedded Design Flow (BSPs, device trees, custom recipes/layers).
• Excellent hardware debug skills with ILA, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers, including custom board bring-up.
• Proven board bring-up and validation experience, taking a new board from power-on, boot and interface bring-up and debugging clocking, reset, and hardware issues on the bench.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces: PCIe, Ethernet, DDR5/6, SerDes, UFS and others such as SPI, I²C, and UART.
• Strong C/C++ for bare-metal programming on ARM/RISC-V cores. Linux kernel-mode driver knowledge is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with Git, scripted/CI builds, automated regression, linting, and structured FPGA workflows. Comfortable automating in Python, Tcl, Makefiles, and Shell.
• Strong ownership and communication, with a track record of mentoring, running design/RTL/verification reviews.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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