Staff Embedded SW Engineer

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We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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At AMD, the growing and versatile Embedded Division is looking to be the lead silicon and solutions provider in new and emerging segments, paving the way with carefully crafted next generation solutions and innovations in Automotive segment. Our core suite of world class silicon portfolio, including APUs / GPUs / FPGAs, provide Tier-1 suppliers high performance, and flexible solutions to develop and deploy differentiated solutions.

THE ROLE:

This role will be a highly visible technical execution role with a direct opportunity to impact our customer success and the success of our embedded business.

You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.  

You will interact with key sales, engineering and management stakeholders for our strategic customers and also work directly with Field Application Engineers, R&D engineers, and customers to launch new customer products and resolve reported issues.

THE PERSON: 

You are an experienced and talented Embedded SW Engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. 

You are seeking a position with the possibility of great influence and where you can use your leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. You can communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across cross-functional groups within an Enterprise organization.  

You welcome the opportunity to interact with key Engineering and Management stakeholders, as well as business teams, to report progress, align on critical topics and drive action items to closure.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products 
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts 
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture 
• Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies 
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
• Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners
• Provide guidance to ODM/OEM customers on effectively integrating AMD processor automotive products and custom designs. Guidance consists of architecture reviews, design-in support, and training customers on product features.
• Analyze, debug, & root cause issues found with AMD processor enabled platform, SW stack and work with appropriate development teams to provide a solution.
• Train field sales and support staff in the features and uses of AMD products.
• Author technical paper, reference solutions, applications note internally as well as externally for NDA customers or public publications.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong object-oriented programming background, C/C preferred
• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
• Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
• Experience with Windows, Linux and/or Android operating system development.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus
• Good understanding of x86 processor architecture
• Strong background in Automotive Infotainment Applications
• Strong development background working closely with CPU/GPU/FPGA, developing middleware and/or system SW drivers for HW accelerators in BSP & HAL or Kernel
• Deep knowledge of OS concepts and programming in Linux and Android
• Background in virtualization technologies and hypervisors
• Strong programming background in C, C , and scripting like Python
• Good breadth and depth of systems technical knowledge (x86, SoC, Platform-HW, Platform-SW, BIOS/FW, Tools) and being able to connect the dots across domains and provide systems view.
• Good knowledge, customer understanding and proven track record enabling customers in their product development.
• Team player with passion to do whatever it takes for business success. High sense of urgency and drive for results.Excellent customer and communication skills is a key.
• Ability to build credibility, influence, align and build consensus among parties working towards the final goal.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

LOCATION: Austin, Tx

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