Lead Validation Engineer - Data Center GPU

AMD
Markham
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceEducation: mastersSkills: ["Mentoring engineers","Issue triage","Root-cause analysis","Debug triage","Cross-functional communication","Technical leadership","Independent execution","Prioritization"]

Drive IP domain and power-management validation for AMD Data Center GPU products across pre-silicon, bring-up, post-silicon enablement, and system-level debug. Own validation strategy and execution for SMU hardware and SMU sub-block power-management features, leading debug triage, root-cause analysis, issue closure, and cross-functional alignment. Develop and improve automation, validation content, and regression/debug analysis to boost coverage, efficiency, and repeatability, while mentoring engineers.

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Lead Validation Engineer - Data Center GPU

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Job Summary

Drive IP domain and power-management validation for AMD Data Center GPU products across pre-silicon, bring-up, post-silicon enablement, and system-level debug. Own validation strategy and execution for SMU hardware and SMU sub-block power-management features, leading debug triage, root-cause analysis, issue closure, and cross-functional alignment. Develop and improve automation, validation content, and regression/debug analysis to boost coverage, efficiency, and repeatability, while mentoring engineers.
Location: Markham
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own SMU hardware validation planning and execution across emulation, ASIC bring-up, post-silicon enablement, regression, and sustaining phases.
  • •Develop validation plans for SMU sub-blocks and power-management features such as bootcode, clocking, fuse, SMN, SMUIO, thermal, RSMU, and security-related interactions.
  • •Lead debug triage, root-cause analysis, and issue closure across hardware, firmware, platform, diagnostics, and system-level interactions.
  • •Partner with architecture, design, firmware, diagnostics, platform, automation, customer engineering, and program teams to align scope, risks, dependencies, and exit criteria.
  • •Build and improve automation, validation content, debug-analysis scripts, and regression checks; review RTL, specifications, firmware interfaces, and register maps to identify coverage gaps; support lab/system-level debug and sustaining/customer issues.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience in semiconductor validation, silicon bring-up, SoC validation, firmware validation, or hardware/software integration.
  • •Hands-on experience with power-management validation including SMU/PMFW functionality and SoC control features (clocking, reset, fuse, thermal, voltage-regulator, platform-management).
  • •Experience developing validation plans, test content, automation, and debug methodologies for complex SoC or GPU products.
  • •Strong debug skills across hardware, firmware, software, diagnostics, and platform interactions, with ability to drive issues to closure.
  • •Proficiency in Python and C/C++ for automation, test infrastructure, or debug-analysis tools; familiarity with Linux and register-level debug.
Experience:Semiconductor validationSoCFirmware validationGPUHardware/software integration
Education:Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Skills:Mentoring engineersIssue triageRoot-cause analysisDebug triageCross-functional communicationTechnical leadershipIndependent executionPrioritization
Languages:En-us
Tech Stack:PythonC/C++LinuxRTLASIC bring-upEmulationSimulationFPGARegister-level analysisFirmware logsSMUPMFWSoCGPUAutomationRegression checks

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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