AI Cluster Validation Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Seattle, WA

About The Position

We are seeking a collaborative and motivated Systems Validation and SW Architect to join our team. In this role, you will develop and execute methodologies and Validation content for system-level hardware, firmware and software validation on machine learning systems built with AMD’s technologies. You’ll work closely with architecture, design, and post-silicon teams to identify and resolve complex systems, improving future debug and Validation features. This position involves developing automation, refining validation processes, executing Validation cases, analyzing data and driving system-level quality across AMD’s product portfolio. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds who bring curiosity, technical depth, and a commitment to innovation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Nice To Haves

Systems engineering expertise to find and resolve system’s HW, FW and SW issues
SW background to advance Validation coverage and improve automation frameworks
Experience with large scale clusters to debug critical issues only seen on scale

Responsibilities

Lead the definition of the Validation procedures to validate the design of various system components on the next generation of machine learning architectures. This includes all components of servers including CPU/GPU/Memory/BIOS/BMC/IO/storage/networking, etc.
Lead efforts to validate Scale-up and Scale-out architectures, including definition of Validation plans at cluster-level as well as writing code to support the validation.
Translating system specs into a robust system integration Validation plan.
Develop complex/critical Validation content as well as monitoring/debug/root-cause SW mechanisms that others can use in their plans.
Establish methods to validate, monitor and root-cause errors at cluster-level.
Make improvements to system level integration Validation strategies, methodologies, and processes
Collaboration with customer and multi-functional HW and SW teams to debug and tackle complex issues
Efficiently execute Validation plans to meet time-to-market requirements
Confidently describe Validation procedures and issues to internal and external stakeholders
Investigate, profile and enable Validation content for a wide variety of system domains, as well as benchmarks and proxies for customer workloads into our own Validation frameworks. These range from industry standard benchmarks to state-of-the-art training and inference applications.
Develop and improve automation features according to requirements