Software Development Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push 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. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. AMD is looking for a senior software engineer to join our growing team to help scale our test automation efforts. You will focus on automating test cases and building reliable test harnesses that accelerate firmware and platform validation across pre-silicon simulation models and post-silicon platforms. This role emphasizes creative automation: finding new ways to reduce manual effort, improve test coverage, and accelerate delivery using modern tooling — including AI assisted techniques and automation frameworks.

Requirements

3 or more years of professional experience in test automation, software development, or firmware validation
Expert knowledge and hands-on experience in C, C++, Python
Solid understanding of object-oriented-design principles
Solid understanding of Software Engineering principles, Data structure, algorithms, Operating Systems concepts and multithread programming
Excellent design and code development skills, familiarity with Linux and modern software tools and techniques for development
Good analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar) and test job lifecycle.
Practical debugging skills: collecting logs, interpreting kernel/firmware messages, and producing useful triage artifacts.
Comfortable experimenting with automation-boosting tools and techniques (e.g., AI-assisted test generation, log parsing/analysis, or automation orchestration).
Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Good knowledge of computer architecture and platform components (x86 processors/APU/GPU, PCIe, CXL, USB, NVMe) is advantageous.

Responsibilities

With a primary focus on automation, create, execute and maintain detailed test procedures and test scripts for BIOS/IFWI and platform firmware using Python and other scripting tools.
Scope, design and implement automation that runs across simulation environments and hardware platforms.
Integrate test cases into Jenkins (or equivalent CI) pipelines and maintain CI jobs, reporting, and artifact collection.
Use and extend internal hardware test tools and third-party utilities; capture failures, collect artifacts (logs, register dumps, AHDS captures), and report defects to firmware and system teams.
Apply innovative automation approaches (including AI assisted test generation, test triage heuristics, or automated log parsing) to reduce manual effort and increase throughput.
Collaborate with firmware developers, validation engineers, and simulation/modeling teams to reproduce issues in simulation (e.g., Simics like environments) and hardware.
Help maintain and grow test frameworks, libraries and reusable test assets, so new tests are easy to author and run.
Troubleshoot and debug test failures; contribute clear triage artifacts and constantly improve logging and debugging capabilities in our currently automated tests.