Platform Emulation Engineer

1 week ago


Austin, Texas, United States Advanced Micro Devices , Inc. Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Platform Emulation Engineer to join our Data Center GPU organization at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. This role will be responsible for developing and maintaining emulation infrastructure, executing and debugging critical firmware used in our HPC and ML products, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality silicon and fast time-to-market.

Key Responsibilities
  • Bring up and debug CPU/GPU firmware/OS using leading-edge emulators (Veloce, Zebu, Palladium)
  • Develop and enhance functional/stress tests to identify silicon bugs on the emulator
  • Interface with the Central Emulation team to develop, debug, and establish CPU/GPU Emulation environment
  • Provide debug leadership, input to test plans, and hands-on execution
  • Collaborate with extended teams to debug environment, drive cross-team testing (Firmware, Software, Diags/tools, Validation, Apps)
  • Triage failures with design, verification, firmware, software, and emulation teams
  • Research and enable new tools and infrastructure to support emulation activities
  • Run and collect data for analysis on AMD's high-end emulators and simulation models
  • Develop scripts/tools to parse data from emulation runs
  • Instrument firmware code to support failure debug
  • Run and collect functional and performance data for HPC workloads
Requirements
  • Solid experience working on emulation platforms such as Veloce, Zebu, or Palladium (compilation, debug, performance, and throughput tuning)
  • Debugging experience is a must, particularly in HW/SW co-debug environments
  • Ability to trace code across multiple domains and root cause using waveforms and other tracing tools
  • Understanding of Verilog, VHDL design
  • Understanding of System Verilog, UVM verification environments is a plus
  • Knowledge of computer hardware architecture (Graphic card, CPU/APU, memory, bus logic, and display technologies)
  • Knowledge of computer software architecture and boot flow (bootrom, firmware, bios, device drivers, OS)
  • Knowledge of HPC, Parallel programming (OpenMP, OpenMPI), heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPU and GPU is a plus
  • Networking, ethernet experience is a plus
  • Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environment and shell scripting
  • Experience in Building and Installing software packages on Linux platform is a plus
  • Programming skills, C, C++, Python, Tcl, Ruby, assembly (ARM & x86)
  • Familiarity with bug tracking tools such as Jira
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
Academic Credentials

Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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.



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