Virtual Software Modeling Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Bring AMD’s leading-edge SoCs to life in a virtual environment! Develop Fast Platform Models that simulate software-visible behavior of AMD’s next-generation designs. Enable pre-silicon development of firmware, system, driver and application software. Support emulation acceleration, performance, and power modeling. Enhance our simulation infrastructure and develop innovative, new debug features. The Virtual Software Modeling Engineer will have broad scope and work with multiple teams to gather SoC and IP component specifications, plan development to meet milestones, build models, and support internal and external stakeholders. You will be a team player on a highly capable and supportive team, working on a project critical to the company’s success. This is a highly visible and impactful role with excellent growth opportunity.

Requirements

Experience developing high-performance systems and application software in C/C++ for Windows and/or Linux environments.
Multi‑threaded programming and synchronization primitives (e.g., mutexes, atomics, condition variables, lock‑free structures), including common pitfalls such as deadlocks, livelocks, priority inversion, and false sharing.
Hardware system architecture and subsystem interface protocols.
x86, ARM or GPU architecture, drivers, and applications.
Linux and/or Windows kernel debugging.
Functional modeling, architecture simulation, or hypervisor development.
QEMU, VirtualBox, Virtualizer, GEM5, or SIMICS.

Responsibilities

Develop high-performance C++ functional models of AMD SoCs and platforms.
Work closely with architecture teams to understand and model new designs.
Improve functionality, stability, and performance of existing models.
Develop tests to verify the functionality of models.
Work with internal and external customers to help debug problems by running their workloads on the models.
Develop new, innovative enhancements to the simulation framework and advanced debug features.
Highly leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency in all job functions.