Hardware Test Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At AMD, we believe technology 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 AMD is shaping the future. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career. You will own and manage our test lab environment, ensuring it is safe, efficient, and optimized for rapid hardware and/or software validation. This includes day-to-day lab management, equipment and tool administration, and inventory control for test assets, boards, components, and instrumentation. You will work closely with engineering teams to support product bring-up, validation, and ongoing test activities, making sure they have the right equipment, setups, and processes to execute high-quality testing on schedule.

Requirements

You are enthusiastic, hands-on, and highly motivated by solving practical engineering problems in a lab environment.
You enjoy pushing the limits of the lab’s capabilities—finding creative, resourceful ways to extend existing tools, automate repetitive tasks, and improve throughput and reliability.
You are organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable juggling multiple priorities, while still maintaining rigorous standards for safety, documentation, and quality.
You collaborate well with design, validation, and operations teams, and you communicate clearly about constraints, risks, and needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a hardware or system test environment, ideally within semiconductors, embedded systems, or electronics manufacturing.
Hands-on experience with common lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, DMMs, protocol analyzers, and signal generators.
Demonstrated experience managing lab infrastructure and inventory, including asset tracking tools and basic procurement workflows.
Experience working in cross-functional engineering teams and supporting multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.
Knowledge of ESD handling, lab safety standards, and best practices for handling sensitive electronic components.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day test lab operations, including access control, safety practices, housekeeping, and maintenance.
Configure and maintain lab workstations, benches, racks, and test setups for hardware and/or software validation.
Coordinate calibration, repair, and preventive maintenance for lab equipment and instrumentation.
Maintain accurate inventory of boards, components, fixtures, instruments, and consumables using an asset-tracking system.
Implement and enforce processes for check-in/check-out of lab assets and test equipment.
Manage ordering, receiving, labeling, and storage of test hardware, cables, connectors, and other materials.
Track usage and lifecycle of key assets to support capacity planning and budget recommendations.
Provide hands-on support for board bring-up, system integration
Create and maintain lab documentation, including equipment lists
Shipment of inventory between sites.