2 months ago
Vancouver, CanadaIntern
Responsibilities
- Craft, implement, debug, and validate firmware features on reference hardware and software, as well as pre-silicon emulation and simulation environments.
- Support the design, development, and delivery of firmware for AMD discrete and embedded products.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and project planning.
- Create and maintain clear documentation for software produced.
- Develop x86 firmware using C and work on embedded firmware, BootROM, and hardware implementation.
- Debug firmware and hardware boundary issues, including waveform-level analysis to identify root causes.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a Canada-based university bachelor's degree program in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Knowledge or experience with low-level BIOS, firmware, or system software development is encouraged.
- Knowledge of C or C++ and hardware architectures is encouraged.
- Familiarity with embedded systems, RTOS, and embedded controller structures is encouraged.
- Experience with source control, debuggers, compilers, and system-wide software-to-firmware-to-hardware debugging is encouraged.
- Knowledge of open-source concepts, VHDL, Verilog, FPGA, and general hardware design concepts and processes is encouraged.
- Familiarity with Linux development environments and graphics or compute pipelines is encouraged.
- Experience with Perforce, JIRA, Git, or similar tools is encouraged.
Benefits
- Hybrid or onsite work in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at 37.5 hours per week for the full term.
- Four- or eight-month winter or summer internship/co-op terms, or a four-month fall term, with specified 2027 start and end dates.
- AMD benefits are described in the company'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.