Silicon Debug Lead

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The AMD Strategic Silicon Solutions (S3) Business Unit is on the cutting edge of delivering the world's next custom solutions for gaming and other use cases. We've delivered blockbuster products and we're very excited to deliver what's next!

THE ROLE:

We are in need of a Silicon Debug Engineer to debug top post-silicon issues with some of AMD's major APU customers.

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, mixed signal system interactions, and verification/validation/debug in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other global engineers. You solve problems using theory, analysis, and hands-on experimentation when required. You are unafraid of learning in new technical areas and embrace the opportunity to take on ambiguous problems.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical customer interaction:

• Debug and resolution of customer silicon, hardware and software issues faced on AMD products
• Resolve customer questions about design and software functionality
• Assist with customer feature enablement
• Drive debug with internal cross functional engineering teams to replicate issue within AMD, create debug hypothesis and root-cause the failure

Driving validation and debug with internal teams:

• Coordinate debug efforts across multiple functional teams to drive issues to close.
• Act as the "voice of the customer" when resolving issues
• Scope and execute the resolution of a wide variety of technical issues during design, verification, validation, qualification and production.
• Drive issues to closure with minimal PPM defects in production using understanding of silicon manufacturing, bench validation, and production test processes.
• Apply power integrity/signal integrity knowledge to trace electrical observations to architecture and firmware
• Scripting language experience: Python preferred. Also Perl, Ruby, Makefiles, shell
• Good understanding and experience in RTL/HDL languages and UVM concepts
• Good working knowledge of SystemC and TLM with some related experience is a plus
• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset
• Desirable assets with prior exposure to video codec system or other multimedia solutions.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering preferred

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.