Senior Validation Engineer

Requirement Details:

Role : Engineering System Engineer 3 (Hardware Validation Engineer – AMD Server & AI Accelerator Performance Validation)

Location: Austin, Tx

Client: AMD

Duration : 1 Year – Potential for extension .

Rate: $80-88/hr. on W2

Summary

• Hardware validation role focused on performance validation of next generation AMD server architecture and AI accelerators.

Education

• Bachelors degree is required for candidates.

Location

• Hybrid onsite (3 days a week minimum) is required.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Analyzing benchmarks and performance key performance metrics of next generation AMD servers and AI accelerators.
• Research trade-offs for our server architecture, especially as related to the memory hierarchy, storage systems, scheduling, and I/O devices.
• Collect data from benchmark results, data from CPU performance counters, and other related performance information to identify bottlenecks and other performance limitations of the benchmark itself, SoC and system.
• Evaluate system performance by executing industry standard benchmarks.
• Thorough understanding of OS fundamentals and how they impact Performance of a system.

Required Experience

• Experience using Linux performance analysis tools and methods.
• Experience executing industry standard benchmarks or other performance test workloads.
• Test automation experience.
• Highly motivated independent contributor with a strong desire to learn and develop a deep understanding of the technology.
• Understanding of computer system architecture.
• Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C . BASH, Python, etc).
• Experience using AI tools like Claude, Copilot and more.
• Communicates and collaborates well with others.
• Experience with PCIe testing and hardware validation.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with benchmarks such as STREAM, multichase, SPECCPU2017, HPL, DGEMM, GUPS, SPECJbb and others.
• Experience with I/O benchmarks and tools such as Infiniband, iPerf3, FIO and others.
• Experience benchmarking memory technologies such as DDR5, CXL, HBM and others.
• Experience benchmarking AI products and using various LLM benchmarks.
• Competitive analysis as it relates to server architectures and AI workloads.