Staff Silicon Debug & Embedded Applications Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a Staff Product Applications Engineer focused on silicon debug and embedded systems.

You will own escalation handling, reproduce failures, and drive fixes across hardware, firmware, and software with cross‑functional teams while building robust Linux images for AMD Adaptive SoC and AI Edge devices. The role emphasizes full‑stack engagement—from memory controllers and boot paths to JTAG debug and customer-facing documentation—sharing accountability for

Qualifications

• Hands-on FPGA/SoC debugging across multiple device generations.
• Experience with silicon debug, validation and customer-facing documents.
• Proven ability to author technical guides and tutorials for customers.
• Ability to reproduce failures and drive to root cause across hardware/software.
• Strong communication across diverse teams and sites/time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own escalated customer issues from design‑in to production support.
• Debug at register level (JTAG) and analyze timing reports.
• Integrate subsystems using Vivado/Vitis and generate images/trees.
• Author customer documentation and respond to escalations.
• Build and tune embedded Linux images with Yocto-based flows.
• Work with design/firmware/software teams to fix root causes.

Skills

FPGA/SoC experience

System architecture

Embedded systems design

Technical writing

Customer collaboration

Tools

Vivado

Vitis

xsdb debugging

OpenEmbedded/Buildroot

Yocto

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a Staff Product Applications Engineer focused on silicon debug and embedded systems.

You will own escalation handling, reproduce failures, and drive fixes across hardware, firmware, and software with cross‑functional teams while building robust Linux images for AMD Adaptive SoC and AI Edge devices. The role emphasizes full‑stack engagement—from memory controllers and boot paths to JTAG debug and customer-facing documentation—sharing accountability for