Principal, Lead Memory Systems Design Engineer

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LEAD, PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEER - Memory

THE ROLE: 

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Principal 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 as well as facilitate continuous career development. 

THE PERSON: 

As a Leader in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, you will be part of a dynamic team leading validation of Datacenter Server memory subsystems, in a way that is end to end customer focused, innovative, efficient and drives highest quality standards. The position requires deep knowledge of memory controller, memory PHY, and DIMM component operation. The candidate is expected to drive close collaborations within AMD and with customers and/or memory suppliers to ensure debug execution is completed for all reported issues, ultimately delivering highest quality products to customers.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and 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, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
• Working closely with supporting technical teams 
• Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks
• Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams, internal and external to AMD

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong technical leadership skills
• Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C , Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Debug techniques and methodologies
• Extensive experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc. 
• Extensive experience with board/platform-level debug, including delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering 

LOCATION:

Austin, TX 

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