Systems Design Engineer

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THE ROLE:  

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Principal Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.  

This is a role in post-silicon power and performance engineering team who will act as end-to-end owner for System/APU/GPU Power and performance optimization from first silicon to production. This role needs to have stronger data scientific sense which can learn and build power and performance data insight structure via well-using internal experiment data including the whole data analytic process from data collecting, clean, modelling , templating, insights, and visualization. Technically it requires the person to have a clear understand of key power and performance influence factors in silicon design and implementation, also understand how to collaborate with the critical program milestone and be responsible to drive across sites and across teams for power and performance related feature readiness and data analytics.   

THE PERSON:  

As a Leader in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your  systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards product development, definition, and root cause resolution.  The person needs to be passionate and well self-motivated, sensitive to the delivery urgency and the innovation path, a good communicator with teamwork spirit, eager to learn new knowledge, able to resolve complex problem. The person needs to have a natural interest in mathematic algorithms, logical coding and beauty of data telling. The person needs to be enthusiasm on data analytic job.

  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across power and performance, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives 
• Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, power and perf measurement, and production phases of SOC programs 
• Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time 
• Working closely with supporting technical teams 
• Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks 

• Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams
• Work closely with internal data producing team and external automation framework team to develop engineering experience-based power and performance data analytic process and visualization structure.
• Work closely with SOC design team & program lead team to understand power and performance target and validation methodology for APU/GPU Component and overall reference design System
• Develop system and component level power and  performance test strategies and plans.
• Attend ASIC bring-up and validation, ensure coverage and schedule.
• Work with CE team to understand Customer expectations of power and performance design and support debugging.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python). 
• Debug techniques and methodologies   

• Extensive experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.  
• Extensive experience with board/platform-level debug, including delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization 
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy 
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details 
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion 

• Strong knowledge of the X86 CPU and GPU architecture with relevant experience.

• Project experience in ASIC design area will be a plus

• Experience of algorithm competition will be a plus

• Program experience of large data visualization will be a plus

• Experience of modern database usage will be a plus
• Experience of data analytic with Power Automate or PowerBI will be a plus.

  

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering 

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.