Senior Manager - System Validation

AMD
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeINR 5,402,950 - 7,718,500 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 20+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Ownership","People leadership","Continuous improvement","Collaboration","Communication"]

Lead system validation for BIOS, firmware, and driver validation across AMD’s embedded product portfolio. Provide hands-on technical leadership to expand validation coverage, strengthen test planning and execution governance, and reduce test escapes through disciplined reporting and exit criteria. Own critical issue triage with structured debug data and aligned ownership, collaborate across silicon and platform teams, and drive scale initiatives using automation, traceability, and AI-enabled validation productivity.

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Senior Manager - System Validation

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Job Summary

Lead system validation for BIOS, firmware, and driver validation across AMD’s embedded product portfolio. Provide hands-on technical leadership to expand validation coverage, strengthen test planning and execution governance, and reduce test escapes through disciplined reporting and exit criteria. Own critical issue triage with structured debug data and aligned ownership, collaborate across silicon and platform teams, and drive scale initiatives using automation, traceability, and AI-enabled validation productivity.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide technical leadership for system validation activities covering BIOS, firmware, and driver validation across assigned embedded programs.
  • •Define and drive validation coverage by partnering with architecture, development, silicon IP enablement, silicon validation, platform, and customer enablement teams.
  • •Own test management discipline including validation planning, test readiness, execution tracking, completion governance, and progress/gap/risk reporting.
  • •Drive first-level triage for critical issues by ensuring structured debug data collection, ownership alignment, prioritization, and timely handoff to development teams.
  • •Reduce validation escapes through improved test strategy, coverage analysis, defect trend reviews, regression rigor, disciplined exit criteria, and AI/automation-driven scale initiatives.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: INR 5,402,950 - 7,718,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •20+ years of industry experience with 8+ years of exposure in people management roles.
  • •Experience leading system validation, post-silicon validation, platform validation, BIOS, firmware, or driver validation teams for complex silicon/platform products.
  • •Strong understanding of the validation lifecycle, including test plan development, coverage definition, test execution governance, defect management, regression strategy, and exit criteria.
  • •Hands-on familiarity with BIOS/UEFI, firmware, drivers, platform initialization, silicon bring-up, debug flows, and system-level validation environments.
  • •Working knowledge of test management tools, defect tracking systems, coverage dashboards, automation frameworks, and traceability practices.
Experience:20+ years
Education:Master's
Skills:OwnershipPeople leadershipContinuous improvementCollaborationCommunication
Languages:En-us
Tech Stack:BIOSUEFIFirmwareDriversSilicon IP enablementSilicon validationPlatform initializationSilicon bring-upDebug flowsTest management toolsDefect tracking systemsCoverage dashboardsAutomation frameworksTraceabilityAI-enabled validation

Company Brief

AMD
Designs and produces semiconductor products including CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive SoCs for consumer, enterprise, and embedded markets, competing across PCs, data centers, and gaming industries.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1969
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