Systems Design Engineer

AMD

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 127,360 - 191,040

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Join AMD as a Systems Design Engineer, where you'll drive innovation and design scalable solutions to improve AMD's product capabilities. You'll leverage your software engineering expertise in a collaborative environment, enhancing product development while adhering to high-quality standards. This mid-senior level role offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to impact next-generation computing experiences.

Qualifications

  • Experience transforming architectural requirements into engineering specifications.
  • Proficiency in SW development methodologies (Waterfall/Agile).
  • Knowledge of Microprocessor architecture (APU/GPU) including memory management units.

Responsibilities

  • Driving technical innovation to enhance validation processes.
  • Leading collaborative approaches with multiple teams for development/test execution.
  • Designing, developing, and delivering software and firmware requirements.

Skills

Technical innovation
Software engineering expertise
Programming/Scripting (C/C++, Python)
Analytical/problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Git
JIRA

Job description

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Base pay range

$127,360.00/yr - $191,040.00/yr

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences - the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

AMD together we advance_

THE ROLE:

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Senior Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.



THE PERSON:

As a Systems Design Engineer, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your software systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards product development, definition, and root cause resolution.



KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Driving technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
  • Experience transforming architectural requirements into engineering specifications
  • Experience working with stakeholders to prioritize multi-objective power & performance tuning requirements
  • Design, Develop, and Deliver to customer specific SW/FW/ driver requirement and enhancements
  • Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams, tracking development/test execution to make sure all features are validated/optimized on time. Execute w/ attention to detail and focus on quality of the deliverables.
  • Provide feedback and improvement ideas to cross-functional teams including performance architecture, IP (CPU, GPU, memory, data fabric), SoC, O/S (Windows and Linux), FW, and Silicon enablement teams.
  • Demonstrate programming w/ modularity, reusability, pluggability
  • Programming/scripting skills (e.g., C/C++, Perl, Python, batch)
  • Proficiency in flow chart, Unit Test, Integration Test, debugging tolls
  • Experience in SW development methodologies (Waterfall/Agile, Kanban/Scrum framework)
  • Well versed in SW engineering practices: Requirement/design documents, design review, code walk-through/check-in, source control systems (git) issue tracking such as JIRA
  • Knowledge of Microprocessor architecture (APU/GPU) including memory management units, interrupt delivery, multi-threaded development, HW/SW interfaces
  • Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion




PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

  • Knowledge of Object-oriented Programming, Test Driven Development
  • Ability to write clean, efficient and scalable code
  • Proficiency in HW/SW performance features, and tuning including clock controllers and power limiters
  • Knowledge of system architecture and power performance attainment on mobile systems
  • Experience AI development tool (GitHub Co-Pilot)
  • Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy
  • Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details


ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering


Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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