Post‑Silicon SoC & System‑Level Validation Engineer

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Role Overview

This role focuses on validating end‑to‑end system behavior, ensuring that multiple SoC subsystems interact correctly under real customer and system‑level use cases.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Own SoC‑level post‑silicon validation, focusing on interaction between multiple subsystems rather than isolated IP testing.
• Validate end‑to‑end system flows involving CPU cores, on‑chip memories, NoC/interconnect, IOs, power management, and firmware.
• Ensure correct behavior across boot, runtime, stress, error, and recovery scenarios at the SoC level.
• Develop validation test cases based on customer use cases (boot flows, IO usage, stress, concurrency, power transitions) into executable validation plans.
• Debug & root cause analysis: Perform deep SoC‑level debug to isolate failures across hardware, firmware, and system software boundaries
• Lab execution & characterization: Use engineering lab equipment (oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, signal generators, etc.) to validate and debug functional behavior
• Documentation & reporting: Produce clear test plans, execution reports, failure analysis summaries, and status updates; track bugs/issues to closure
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience in pre‑silicon and/or post‑silicon SoC validation, with strong ownership in post‑silicon execution.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture and subsystem interactions.
• Experience validating system‑level use cases and customer‑driven scenarios.
• Familiarity with debug tools, system logs, traces, and lab‑based validation setups
• Strong understanding of SoC boot flows, firmware, and HW/SW interaction.
• Lab proficiency: Extensive experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, signal generators, etc.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with emulation platforms (Palladium, Protium, Zebu) for pre‑silicon or early validation.
• Exposure to NoC fabrics, power management, clock/reset architecture, and system controllers.
• Familiarity with system software stacks (bootloader, Linux, RTOS) and their interaction with silicon.
• Hands on experience using AI tools
  
  
  

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.