Sr. Silicon Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Santa Clara, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them. AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
Two (2) years experience in the job offered or a related engineering role.
Unix/Linux environments
Creation of C models for design
C/C++
Python
Object Oriented design
Software debugging (macOS or Linux/Unix)
Git
Data Structures

Responsibilities

Problem identification: Data from the AM tool is used by GPU architects used to identify points that can be enhanced in our next-gen products. AM team develops a variety of tools and datapoints makes finding performance problems easier.
Feature Development: The AM team works with architects on ideas, called features, to improve the graphics architecture. The Sr. Engineer is responsible for the gathering of requirements, design, and implementation of new features within the model. The AM team has the core responsibility of proving or disproving new features inclusion in next-gen products.
Model Development: The SR. Engineer will develop the knowledge of the entire graphics and compute pipeline for all our off-the-shelve products, and details of the upcoming changes and their impact.
Infrastructure / Model Enhancement: C++ simulator coupled with python postscripts for data visualization and analysis. The Sr. Engineer bring expertise in these languages to improve the overall usability of the AM tools in terms of wall-clock runtime, memory consumption, code quality and complexity.
SW Shift Left: Help drive our SW shift-left initiative, where we have a faster functional model and driver stack to facilitate our architecture analysis and IP verification needs sooner in the development cycle, prior to detailed architecture modeling of target software.