Senior Technical Lead Engineer for Leading the AMD Embedded x86 Silicon Health & Quality Initiative Job Listing at AMD in Bengaluru, KA (Job ID 71774-en-us)

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Senior Technical Lead Engineer for Leading the AMD Embedded x86 Silicon Health & Quality Initiative  

The Role:  

As a Senior Member of the AMD Embedded x86 Enterprise Quality Attainment(EQA) Team, you will use your software engineering skills and knowledge of CPU design to come up with solutions to find and debug any defects seen in silicon. You will drive these efforts using various tools or devising new tests or perform data analysis to get to root cause and resolution. You will work as part of a broader team to help improve the time-to-market, quality, and reliability of AMD's designs. You will also be responsible for driving systematic improvements in debugging methods, tools and features based on your findings and expertise.  

The Person:  

• Approach challenges relentlessly with both critical thinking and creativity.
• Work as part of a team with effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Have strong problem-solving skills, and a drive to learn and understand.
• Enjoy hands-on work and like to take the initiative to drive issues to resolution.
• Excellent communicator, inter personal skills, team player and leader
• Self-driven, enjoys new challenges and quickly adapts to change in a fast-moving environment

Key Responsibilities:  

• Take ownership and responsibility of key areas of development and debugging for embedded x86 products
• Handle qualification  of embedded x86 products in a farm setting
• Participate in a variety of CPU debug efforts in silicon including stress tests, defect exploits.  
• Develop data pipeline solutions that will analyze data and present insights effectively.  
• Ability to rapidly prototype solutions, test them and iterate on improvements.  

Required Experience:

• Proficient in CPU architecture, x86 (or equivalent) instruction set architecture, and/or design principles.
• Strong knowledge of x86 architecture, embedded devices, server technologies.
• Good understanding of various Operating Systems – especially tailored to the embedded environment constraints.
• Must Have: Ubuntu Linux, Nice to have: Yocto
• Good experience working with CPU/SoC products in a post-silicon engineering environment.
• Experience in developing solutions for embedded systems, including knowledge of firmware, architecture, programming, and debugging.
• Software development experience with Python, SQL, Docker, Shell  
• Ability to display insights and analysis visually: Pandas, Numpy, Plotly  
• Device testing, debugging and test integration at scale.  
• Linux command line and scripting skills. Familiarity with Linux operating systems, drivers, kernel modules.  
• Version control and test-driven development experience: GitHub Actions, Artifactory  
• The ability to visualize problems from a customer's perspective and communicate accordingly: JIRA, Confluence  
• Open-mindedness and a willingness to learn and perform exciting research! 
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and scripting languages like BASH and PowerShell for tool development and automation.
• Possess data analytics skills to derive meaningful insights.
• Proficiency in problem-solving, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting server-related issues. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, external vendors, large volume customers and end-users.
• Bonus: Technical Conference and Technical Show Experience speaking and presenting  with customers.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• CPU architecture, instruction set architecture, and/or design knowledge and/or experience.  
• Hands-on knowledge of system debugging, multi-threading, memory management, error checking and correction tools.  
• Understanding of the various aspects of a CPU product definition such as frequency, voltage, thermal design power, performance, etc.  
• 5+ Years of Industry experience with chip related technologies.  

Academic Credentials:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering
• Preferred experience at least 14+ years of relevant experience

Location:

• • Bengaluru, India

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