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Platform Emulation Engineer

AMD
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/27/2026
WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.

The Role

AMD is seeking a Platform Emulation Engineer to join our Data Center GPU organization. Our products support the rapidly scaling Data Center and High-Performance Compute infrastructure. You will be an integral member of the Platform emulation team responsible for emulation infrastructure development, execution and debug of critical firmware used in our HPC and ML products, developing test plans and execute test cases to enhance silicon test coverage, train and support validation teams on emulation technology, build and execute industry standard HPC benchmarks and applications on the emulator.

The Person

As a platform emulation engineer you will have an opportunity to work on bleeding edge SoC architecture and technology, and participate in development of emulation infrastructure to enable pre-silicon activities to ensure high quality Silicon and fast time to market. You will work alongside our team of innovative engineers to support the deployment of AMD’s Instinct ML products targeting Supercomputers and Data Center workloads.

Key Responsibilities

  • CPU/GPU Firmware/OS bring up and debug using leading edge emulators (Veloce, Zebu, Palladium)
  • Develop/modify/enhance functional/stress tests to find silicon bugs on emulator
  • Interface with Central Emulation team responsible for helping to develop, debug and establish CPU/GPU Emulation environment.
  • Provide debug leadership, input to test plans and hands on execution
  • Work with extended teams to debug environment, drive cross team testing (Firmware, Software, Diags/tools, Validation, Apps)
  • Triage failures with design, verification, firmware, software, and emulation teams
  • Research and enable new tools and infrastructure to support emulation activities
  • Run and collect data for analysis on AMD’s high-end emulators and simulation models
  • Develop scripts/tools to parse data from emulation runs
  • Instrument firmware code to support failure debug
  • Run and collect functional and performance data for HPC/AI ML workloads
  • Attend weekly meetings, status communication, presentations.


Preferred Experience

  • Solid experience working on emulation platforms such as Veloce, Zebu, or Palladium (compilation, debug, performance, and throughput tuning)
  • Debugging experience is a must particularly in HW/SW co-debug environments
  • Ability to trace code across multiple domains and root cause using waveforms and other tracing tools
  • Understanding of Verilog, VHDL design
  • Understanding of System Verilog, UVM verification environments is a plus
  • Knowledge of computer hardware architecture (Graphic card, CPU/APU, memory, bus logic, and display technologies) Knowledge of computer software architecture and boot flow (bootrom, firmware, bios, device drivers, OS)
  • Knowledge of HPC, Parallel programming (OpenMP, OpenMPI), heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPU and GPU a plus
  • Networking, ethernet experience a plus
  • Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environment and shell scripting
  • Experience in Building and Installing software packages on Linux platform a plus
  • Experience writing/building ML systems is a plus
  • Programming skills, C, C , Python, Tcl, Ruby, assembly (ARM & x86)
  • Familiarity with bug tracking tools such as Jira
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills


ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering 7-10 years relevant experience

LOCATION:

Austin, TX

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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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