Lead Systems Engineer

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Are you a seasoned Systems Engineer with a passion for driving silicon product delivery and ensuring your teams are working on top priority tasks and issues?  Do you have an amazing amount of system, silicon, and firmware experience to share with the world?  Do you love leading validation strategies, test plans, BIOS implementations, and debug efforts?

If the answers to these questions are “yes” then AMD has a dream job waiting for you!

This is a high visibility leadership role with broad responsibilities and accountable to the VP level.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Lead Post-Silicon execution for semi-custom SOCs, End-to-End
• Be the internal & customer facing representative for the System Engineering team
• Work with cross organization teams to ensure Silicon/SW/Platform/etc. features are in sync, development is supported, and validation is planned
• Set technical direction for the test activities, including bring up of silicon & boards
• Issue triage, prioritization, and root-cause resolution plans
• Owner for System specification that includes:
• Platforms definitions: Validation, test, and reference platforms
• Covers all system features to be validated
• Test requirements for all system features
• System test plans that include
• Functions within Silicon IP, Bios, Firmware, Drivers, Silicon, IO subsystems, power/performance, thermal, OS certification
• Cross-functional groups (Performance, Power, and Manufacturing etc.)
• External and Customer co-validation teams
• Platform configurations – system BOM definition, component selection
• Sign-off responsibility for Synchronized releases for internal and external delivery
• CPU, chipset, boards, options, peripherals, OS, BIOS, drivers
• Test execution and debug leadership across AMD
• Assure that all responsibilities are clearly defined across all relevant and participating organizations

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Multiple years, preferably more than 10 years of experience with Client PC and/or Server system design and validation
• Microprocessor bring-up and debug
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Prior experience with testing tools and environments, defect tracking and revision control
• Knowledge of Computer Architecture concepts and silicon development
• Microsoft Operating Systems, Linux Operating Systems, virtualization software (VMware, Ubuntu, et al), and validation/certification processes for each of these environments
• Experience with system component compatibility and stress testing
• Familiar with power/performance optimization and tradeoffs
• Familiar with scripting languages and programming (Python/Ruby)
• MS Office & MS Project tool suites

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering preferred

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