Platform Emulation Validation Engineer

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The Role

The AMD Pre-silicon Validation Team is seeking an energetic, experienced System Emulation Engineer to join our growing team where past products include game consoles such as the PS5 and Xbox One. As a System Emulation Engineer, you will execute and perform debug of issues alongside validation, FW, and IP teams on emulation in order to meet product development milestones. Additionally, you will develop and expand infrastructure to enable increased coverage and testing in a pre-silicon environment.

This role specifically focuses on pre-silicon emulation debug, development and validation of complex boot flows connections and peripherals in the SOC design.

The Person

As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s IP, you will be part of a leading team to drive and enhance AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The System Emulation team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes, provides ample opportunities to develop technical depth of knowledge and facilitate continuous career development.

Key Responsibilities

• Debug and support of system issues found in firmware, hardware, or software during pre-silicon emulation
• Providing root cause analysis and guidance for the closure of issues to both internal and customer-facing/external teams
• Reviewing and planning dependencies, milestones, and deliverables, and coordinating with upstream and downstream teams
• Defining and executing pre-silicon coverage on semi-custom systems on emulator systems
• Driving collaborative technical discussions and innovations in order to enhance AMD’s capabilities in system emulation and debug, including tool and script development, technical, and methodology enhancements
• Drive own priorities to achieve business goals and ensure deliverables are on schedule
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Prior years of experience with low level debug and emulation execution of SoCs and embedded systems, and their related software/firmware debug
• In-depth knowledge of system architecture and concepts, including proficiency in x86 and ARM architectures, their functionality, and debug practices
• Experience with emulation systems debug, including experience with industry standard emulator systems
• Knowledge of Verilog, C, C , assembly, TCL/TK, Python, and/or other scripting languages
• Demonstrated ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excel in a dynamic team working environment
• Self-starter, strong collaborator, and able to independently drive tasks to completion, especially those with high ambiguity
• Strong understanding of BIOS and other firmware components, OS (Linux, Windows, Android), and driver-level interactions at the system level, common failure points within each, and debug methodologies
• Knowledge and use of standard debuggers, programmers, and related tools and methodologies (JTAG, Dstream, Lauderbach, etc.)
• Working debug knowledge of Windows and Linux-based operating systems and technologies, as well as their needs and limitations in a pre-silicon environment
• Familiarity with Git, GitLab/GitHub and other software repository frameworks and methodologies
• Technical understanding of Graphics, Display, PCIe, Power Management, or Security/Crypto architecture & design
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

Bachelor, Master's or PhD degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or related degree

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