Interconnect Firmware Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices • Austin, TX

100d • Hybrid

About The Position

At AMD, we care deeply about transforming lives with 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 systems. The AMD culture pushes the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges, striving for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. We are looking for a qualified engineer to work on bringing next-generation high-performance computing products to market, specifically focusing on AMD Infinity Data Fabric (DF) used across all product segments including EPYC, Ryzen, Vega, Navi, and Semi-Custom products. The engineer will be part of a highly visible and motivated team responsible for Infinity Fabric IP firmware development and feature enablement across all AMD products. Responsibilities include enhancing tools and infrastructure for data extraction, processing, compiling, and decompiling, as well as contributing to debug and optimization of software to support silicon bring-up, validation, and debug.

Requirements

• Proven experience in firmware development cycle, integration, and good understanding of verification/validation for pre and post silicon for SoC designs.
• Expertise in low-level C programming, software optimization techniques and debugging for embedded systems.
• Strong in Python and Linux scripting applied to data parsing and processing.
• Strong background in computer architecture with familiarity in memory interleaving, system memory maps and NUMA domain concepts.
• Prior experience in board, processor/ASIC bring-up and testing platforms (Simulation and/or Emulation).
• Experience in hardware/software interfaces and methodically debugging sophisticated issues at the IP, subsystem and/or system level using source code debuggers and other system debug tools.
• Experience with source control systems including Git/Gerrit.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Must be well-organized, technically oriented, and a self-starter with a demonstrated ability to support multiple products, work collaboratively and coordinate activities with geographically distributed technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for firmware development and feature enablement in the Infinity Fabric interconnect across all AMD products, including design, documentation, unit testing and debug for pre and post silicon support.
• Enhancing python-based tools that process large amounts of complex data to produce a hardware initialization binary.
• Develop tools and infrastructure that help in the collection of the initialization data in either python or C / C++.
• Work closely with architects and other IP leads to determine firmware scope and implementation details to meet firmware deliverables schedules and milestones.
• Perform unit and integration tests, engage with various teams to provide debug support in the emulation, simulation, and post-silicon environment.
• Be an active participant in design and code reviews.
• Work with internal and external teams to ensure highest level of quality and satisfaction throughout firmware lifecycle.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees