Senior Server Validation Engineer

The Role

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Staff Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes and facilitate career development.

As a lead engineer in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your hardware and firmware systems engineering expertise will be necessary toward product development, root cause analysis, and resolution. Most of your day will be spent in Post‑Silicon validation activities supporting the EPYC and AMD Intel products, helping with triage and debug.

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross‑functional technical initiatives.
• Debugging issues found during the process, bring‑up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs.
• Working with multiple teams to develop test plans and performing execution to ensure all features are validated and optimized on time.
• Working closely with supporting technical teams.
• Engaging in software/hardware modeling frameworks.
• Leading complex debug efforts for Silicon findings to identify root cause and resolution.

• Several years of experience in Post‑Silicon Validation roles involving debugging OS, firmware, silicon, SoC/platform hardware issues.
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy.
• Programming/scripting skills (e.g., C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python).
• Experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.
• Strong customer focus and experience with one of AMD's customer validation teams is a plus.
• Experience using automation frameworks for execution is a plus.
• Strong analytical/problem‑solving skills and pronounced attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be a self‑starter and able to independently drive tasks to completion.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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