2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$240k - $360k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define system validation strategies, test architectures, and firmware release quality gates across AMD products.
- Validate firmware and software features at the system level before customer release.
- Architect scalable automation frameworks and lab infrastructure for multi-node and cluster-scale testing.
- Write test plans, build automated test scripts, execute tests, and review and triage failures.
- Reproduce customer-reported issues, verify fixes, debug complex technical problems, and collaborate with peer teams.
- Report quality status, risks, and release readiness to program leadership.
- Set test engineering standards, influence development teams and partners, and mentor senior and junior engineers.
Requirements
- Seasoned experience in system testing, validation, or test automation, including experience as a test architect or technical lead.
- Strong firmware testing and automation experience with fluency in Python.
- Experience with automation frameworks, test and performance-testing tools, and high-quality automation code.
- Knowledge of operating systems, kernel-mode programming, device drivers, Linux, and hypervisors such as VMware ESX and KVM.
- Experience with debuggers, source code control systems such as GitHub, and profilers is preferred.
- Prior cloud, security, and data center technology experience is advantageous.
- Experience defining test strategies and release quality gates, building cross-team automation frameworks, leading customer escalations, and influencing engineering and leadership teams.
- Experience testing firmware on CPU, GPU, or SoC platforms at scale, including AI workloads on multi-node clusters, is a strong plus.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
Benefits
- AMD benefits are offered; details are provided in AMD's benefits overview.
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.