Systems Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Data Center Platform Engineering Group (DPEG) organization is looking for skilled individuals that can contribute to the bring-up, support and debug of complex system / SOC problems. Individuals will be part of a growing lab team and required to do hands on experiments related to issue management as well board level reworks. The position involves a wide range of activities including deploying pre-production platforms and test stations to enable silicon bring-up and validation, contributing to the triage, debug and rework required to resolve complicated system level issues.

Requirements

Proven test bench setup experience with expertise in embedded systems
Able to read and interpret board schematics
Software Programming and scripting experience (Python, bash, C/C++) in Windows and Linux operating systems.
PC/server environment H/W and S/W setup and administration.
Basic networking skills
Comfortable working in different operating system environment including Windows and Linux
Excellent soldering skills
Experience with HW and SW fault detection and management
Experience with power supplies monitoring and sequencing
Proficient in the fundamentals of power electronics with special emphasis on multiphase power converters
Demonstrated ability to work with oscilloscopes, multi-meters, current probes, electronic loads, and protocol analyzers as well as adept at intuitive reasoning to explain and correct unexpected results
Proficient at documenting experimental results in a structured manner for ease of reference
Knowledge of computer hardware (CPU/APU, graphic cards, memory, bus logic, and display technologies) and software architecture (driver/bios)
Ability to set up hardware and build computer systems
Logic based decision making on triage/debug
Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python/LabView

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with the low-speed industry standard protocols such as I2C, Redfish, IPMI, SPI, I3C, SVI2, SVI3
Familiarity with the high-speed industry standard protocols such as PCIe Gen 5.

Responsibilities

Setup hardware to facilitate remote/local test execution and user defined workloads in the DPEG validation lab
Own initial troubleshooting and debug of a wide variety of system, firmware, or software issues encountered while maintaining the integrity of a large number of development systems.
Reproduce issues and validate fixes identified by DCGPU platform leads and chief engineers.
Provide logs and statistics that will help in further debug of issues.
Integrate automated testing in CI/CD environment (e.g. Jenkins, Ansible)
Work within a managed ticketing system and communicate clearly on steps/activities