12 days ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own escalated customer support issues from pre-production bring-up and characterization through production support.
- Reproduce, isolate, and root-cause failures across processing subsystems, interconnect, memory, boot, firmware, software, and programmable logic.
- Debug at register level using JTAG, boot-stage analysis, timing reports, serial console, ILA, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- Integrate and configure SoC subsystems in Vivado and Vitis and generate device images, XSA hardware handoffs, and system device trees.
- Build and customize Yocto-based embedded Linux images, including BSPs, device trees, kernel and rootfs configuration, recipes, and layers.
- Develop and debug boot images, low-level embedded software, RTL test designs, automation, and hardware validation flows.
- Analyze and tune performance across hardware/software boundaries and prove results through measurement.
- Author customer-facing product guides, user guides, datasheets, tutorials, and technical findings.
- Apply AI, LLM, and ML tools to identify design gaps, correlate test and log data, and improve debug, automation, and documentation.
- Collaborate with design, IP, firmware, software, validation, and field teams and conduct technical reviews with customers.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with FPGA/SoC platforms in silicon debug, applications, validation, or systems engineering across multiple device generations and product cycles.
- Working knowledge of SoC architecture, processing subsystems, on-chip interconnect, DDR5/6, LPDDR5/6, OSPI, UFS, SD/eMMC, and programmable logic.
- Experience debugging functional failures on real hardware using register-level JTAG, serial console, ILA, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- Solid RTL fundamentals in SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL; AMD/Xilinx FPGA experience and Vivado expertise are preferred.
- Experience building and customizing embedded Linux with Yocto-based flows such as PetaLinux or Embedded Design Flow, or equivalent depth in OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, or AOSP.
- Linux kernel and driver knowledge covering UIO and character drivers, interrupt routing, reserved memory, and real-time scheduling.
- Strong C/C++ for embedded application and bare-metal programming, plus automation experience with Python, Tcl, and Shell.
- Working knowledge of clocking, CDC, timing closure, and static timing analysis, with the ability to debug timing violations.
- Experience with performance analysis and tuning or FPGA/SoC boot and configuration flows, including boot images, platform management firmware, secure boot, bootloaders, and runtime reconfiguration.
- Demonstrated use of AI/LLM/ML tools in engineering workflows.
- Strong technical writing, customer support, cross-functional collaboration, technical review, and communication skills.
Benefits
- AMD benefits are offered; detailed benefits are described in AMD’s benefits-at-a-glance materials.
About AMD
AMD designs and sells CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive/embedded computing products for PCs, data centers, gaming, and edge devices. Its portfolio includes Ryzen and EPYC processors, Radeon and Instinct graphics, and adaptive SoCs from its Xilinx acquisition, sold to OEMs, cloud providers, and device makers. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company on NASDAQ and supplies semi-custom chips for major game consoles.