System Design Engineer
About The Position
This specialized engineering position is responsible for Product Engineering program technical planning for next-generation AMD microprocessors. The engineer serves as a critical technical point of contact for business, design, platform validation, and product engineering teams. As a member of the technical staff, the engineer provides technical supervision or mentoring to junior engineers and influences others as a subject matter expert. The role requires independently driving technical decisions and being accountable for accurate, reliable, and complete assignment results critical to project success. It offers the opportunity to influence technical decisions with significant impact across multiple products or a product line.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a comparable discipline.
- Strong hands-on experience in post-silicon validation, server/system validation, platform validation, or silicon bring-up.
- Demonstrated experience developing validation strategies, coverage plans, test plans, risk assessments, and milestone exit criteria for complex server or SoC products.
- Experience with debug techniques and methodologies.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Ruby, and shell scripting.
- Proficiency in Linux, Unix, or Windows operating systems.
- Experience with statistical analysis to identify and resolve problems.
- Ability to drive technical decisions independently and be accountable for accurate, reliable, and complete work results.
Nice To Haves
- Experience being responsible for projects or processes of significant technical importance, with results that cross engineering project areas.
- Experience with large-scale system validation or server-farm environments.
- Deep knowledge of computer architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with design, validation, and architecture teams on content coverage, test plan development, validation, and debugging.
- Develop test program infrastructure incorporating the latest Best-Known methods.
- Solve sophisticated, novel, and non-recurring problems; initiate significant changes to existing processes or methods; and lead their development and implementation.
- Identify and plan product improvement (validation) activities to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and resolve quality issues.
- Provide technical supervision or mentoring to junior engineers and influence others as a subject matter expert.
Benefits
- Competitive benefit packages; details are referenced as “AMD benefits at a glance.”
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
