1 day ago
Markham, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for HSIO and Data Transfer IPs, including firmware/hardware interfaces, register maps, and programming models.
- Debug firmware and IP issues across firmware, hardware, and RTL during pre-silicon simulation, emulation, bring-up, and system validation.
- Define and execute firmware validation strategies covering unit testing, firmware/RTL co-simulation, and regression automation.
- Develop Python-based tools and infrastructure for data collection, debugging, and validation-test execution.
- Support pre-silicon shift-left activities with design verification, diagnostics, emulation, and software/hardware modeling teams.
- Support post-silicon bring-up, platform-level debugging, and firmware validation, including customer-platform issues when requested.
- Participate in code and design reviews, author documentation, mentor engineers, and lead technical discussions and initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.
- Strong C/C++ programming experience for resource-constrained, bare-metal, and embedded firmware targets.
- Experience developing firmware against hardware register interfaces and bringing it up on simulation, emulation, FPGA, and silicon platforms.
- Extensive experience with ASIC and firmware debugging methodologies, including debugging across firmware, hardware, and RTL boundaries.
- Strong Python scripting skills for tooling, data processing, and automation.
- Experience with source-control systems such as Git.
- Knowledge of physical and protocol levels of common high-speed interfaces, with PCIe and PC architecture knowledge preferred.
- Post-silicon board and platform debugging experience, including clock and power delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization, preferred.
- Experience with protocol or logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and related laboratory equipment preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, self-direction, analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid role located in Markham or Vancouver.
- AMD benefits are offered, with details provided through AMD’s benefits-at-a-glance information.
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.