Platform Hardware Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • Austin, TX

4h

About The Position

At AMD, the mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. The company fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, believing that real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity, and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. Joining AMD means experiencing a culture that pushes innovation limits, solves important challenges, and values execution excellence, directness, humility, collaboration, and diverse perspectives. This role, as an MTS of Hardware Engineering, involves working with the lead and being part of a design team developing state-of-the-art systems in a dynamic and fast-paced engineering environment. The position entails leading and participating in challenging product development projects, specifically focusing on platform hardware designs from NPI to full-volume production. It requires close collaboration with power supply designs, mechanical and thermal teams, firmware development and validation teams, PCB layouts, and internal and external design stakeholders to ensure high-quality products and smooth volume production within tight schedules. The role is centered on product development for the data center AI acceleration markets, a rapidly growing segment within AMD, and requires essential experience with switches and their board design, particularly using Broadcom or Cisco switches.

Requirements

• Capability to closely work with power supply designs, mechanical and thermal teams, firmware development and validation teams, PCB layouts, and internal and external design stakeholders to create high-quality products and smooth volume production within a tight schedule.
• Focus on product development for the data center AI acceleration markets.
• Experience with switches and their board design, specifically using Broadcom or Cisco switches is essential.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering

Nice To Haves

• Strong board hardware and system design experience.
• Proven ability to drive product development from concept to mass production.
• Ability to write product specifications.
• BOM management skills.
• Solid experience in high-speed mixed-signal design techniques.
• Strong experience in Cadence tools, such as Concept Capture and Allegro PCB.
• Solid experience in LDOs and Multiphase DC-DC switching power supply Power Integrity for high-power ASIC products.
• Experience with power conversion and delivery for high-performance processors or GPUs is a plus.
• Experience with hardware lab tools, digital oscilloscopes, and other common lab equipment.
• Experience with firmware, APIs, applications, OSes, and their interactions within Windows, Linux, Data Accelerators, compute, and virtualization environments.
• Understanding of industrial standards: high-speed/digital interfaces (DP, PCI Express), memory interface, I2C/SMBus/PMBus.
• Must be self-driven, collaborative, and a strong team player with technical leadership skills to support optimal performance.
• Excellent teamwork, communication, and organization skills.
• Experience with high-speed serial interfaces, PCI Express, and DisplayPort is a plus.
• Specific experience with switches, CPU, and their board design including SI and PI knowledge

Responsibilities

• Technically lead cross-functional engineering teams responsible for system and hardware development of AI acceleration-based systems from product definition to production. This includes the physical design of multilevel boards, DFM (Design for Manufacturing), power regulation, board bring-up qualification and debug, thermal, signal integrity, and EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference).
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership and communication within the hardware engineering, architecture, customer, and program management teams.
• Actively drive technical definition/architecture and program execution/issue resolution in a dynamic development environment with programs in various development phases ranging from concept, feasibility, execution, production, or sustaining.
• Work with SOC silicon architects and the business unit to define and develop product requirements, specifications, and cost targets.
• Drive innovation in system architecture, system management, circuit implementations, and security down to the level of component selections.
• Define and manage experiments and assist with hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, design verification, optimizations, and fine-tuning for an optimum balance of cost and performance at the board and system level.
• Provide implementation guidelines and feedback to silicon, package, and system design groups.
• Create and publish technical documentation for internal and external stakeholders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees