Sr. Staff Post Silicon Validation Apps Engineer - SOC/IP, HSIO

<strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.</span></strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.</span></p> <br><strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SENIOR STAFF POST SILICON VALIDATION APPS ENGINEER</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":2,"335551620":2}"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE ROLE:</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">AMD is looking for a highly experienced Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) to join the Embedded x86 Applications Engineering organization and serve as a technical leader for customer enablement, post-silicon validation, system debug, platform qualification, and technical escalation management.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role serves as the senior technical bridge between customers, FAEs, Product Management, Program Management, Silicon Engineering, Platform Engineering, BIOS/Firmware Engineering, Validation, Quality, and Customer Support organizations.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The SMTS Engineer will provide technical leadership across complex customer engagements, drive resolution of high-impact escalations, influence validation and debug methodologies, and help define support and qualification strategies across AMD Embedded x86 platforms. The role requires deep platform expertise, exceptional debugging skills, strong customer engagement capabilities, and the ability to influence cross-functional engineering organizations without direct authority.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1}"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE PERSON</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">:</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1}"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The ideal candidate is a recognized technical leader with extensive post-silicon validation and platform debug experience, a strong customer-first mindset, and a proven track record of driving complex technical issues to closure.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This person is comfortable operating in highly ambiguous environments, leading root-cause investigations, mentoring engineers, influencing engineering priorities, and representing AMD in strategic customer engagements.</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong executive-level and customer-facing communication skills.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Deep technical expertise in platform validation and system architecture.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ability to influence technical direction across engineering organizations.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Recognized problem solver for complex platform and interoperability issues.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comfortable interacting with customers, engineering directors, architects, validation leads, and executive stakeholders.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ability to balance customer urgency with engineering execution discipline.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated ownership mindset and accountability.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A self-starter capable of independently driving highly complex technical investigations while providing technical leadership to broader validation and applications engineering teams.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Strategic Customer Technical Ownership</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as the senior technical lead for customer escalations involving AMD Embedded x86 platforms.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Act as the primary technical escalation point for high-priority and business-critical customer issues.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide technical leadership across customer engagements, platform enablement activities, and production deployments.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Influence customer adoption, platform readiness, and long-term customer success.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Leadership</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide technical leadership and mentoring to MTS engineers and validation teams.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive best practices for validation, debugging, escalation management, and customer engagement.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead cross-functional investigations involving multiple engineering organizations.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Establish debug methodologies and root-cause frameworks for complex platform issues.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Post Silicon Validation Leadership</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define validation strategies for customer-reported issues.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead validation activities for new platforms, features, and customer deployments.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive interoperability, qualification, compatibility, and production-readiness efforts.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review and improve validation coverage based on field learnings and customer feedback.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Advanced Platform Debug & Root Cause Analysis</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead investigations involving:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">PCIe Gen4/Gen5,DDR4/DDR5,Memory training and validation,USB,Networking,Storage and NVMe,Graphics and Display,RAS technologies,Platform security, Silicon-to-system interactions</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Escalation Management</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead engineering escalations for customer-critical issues.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with BIOS, Firmware, Silicon, Validation, Product, and Quality teams to drive issue resolution.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review and approve escalation strategies and debug plans.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure engineering teams receive complete technical analysis and reproduction data.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Continuous Improvement & Innovation</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive automation initiatives for validation and debug workflows.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify support-deflection opportunities through improved validation coverage and documentation.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Influence platform quality improvements using customer and field feedback.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to AMD technical strategies for product quality and customer success.</span></li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">13+ years of experience in Applications Engineering, Post Silicon Validation, Platform Validation, Product Validation, Embedded Systems, Customer Engineering, Silicon Validation, or related technical roles.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Extensive hands-on experience debugging x86 or embedded platforms.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong expertise in:</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience leading customer-facing technical engagements.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated ability to drive high-priority escalations across multiple engineering organizations.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong platform-level debug skills spanning silicon, firmware, BIOS, operating systems, drivers, hardware, and validation domains.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with debug tools including protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG, firmware traces, and crash dump analysis.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong Linux and Windows platform debugging expertise.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proficiency in Python, automation frameworks, and validation infrastructure development.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience working with global engineering teams and executive stakeholders.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prior experience with AMD Embedded products, networking, industrial, storage, automotive, communications, AI, or compute platforms is preferred</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field is required.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or computer science discipline is preferred.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Equivalent industry experience in platform validation, customer engineering, embedded systems, or silicon validation may be considered where applicable.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Location</strong></span></p><ul><li style="list-style-type: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bangalore, India<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">#LI-NR1</span></li></ul></li></ul> <br><strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Benefits offered are described: </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/careers/benefits.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AMD benefits at a glance</a>.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.</span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available <a href="https://www.amd.com/en/legal/responsible-ai-use-policy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a></span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">This posting is for an existing vacancy.</span></em></span></p>