Lead - Pre-Silicon Validation & Emulation
AMD · Bangalore · 12+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-01-22
Tech stack: C, C++
About 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.
As a Leader in Systems Design Engineer ing, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your software systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards p roduct development, definition, and root cause resolution.
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Responsibilities:
- Driving technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities a cross validation, 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, validation, 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
Qualifications:
- Significant 12+ years of relevant experience in complex SoC verification & Validation
- Prior hands-on experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
- Developing C/C++/Uefi based test content.
- Validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment
- Debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps
- Knowledge of low power design emulation/verification and power management fundamentals
- Knowledge of UEFI, Windows Operating Systems
- Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
- Knowledge of Memory subsystem, high speed IO peripherals like PCIe, USB, NPU, SoC & IP level Power Management flow, Security protocols.
- Knowledge of one or more protocols; SPI, DDR, SATA, USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI.
- Good to have Post Silicon Validation Experience on CPU/Power Management/HSIO -PCIe/USB using Embedded C and BIOS
- 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
- Bachelors or M asters degree in electrical or computer engineering #LI-PK2
Qualifications
- Significant 12+ years of relevant experience in complex SoC verification & Validation
- Prior hands-on experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
- Developing C/C++/Uefi based test content.
- Validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment
- Debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps
- Knowledge of low power design emulation/verification and power management fundamentals
- Knowledge of UEFI, Windows Operating Systems
- Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
- Knowledge of Memory subsystem, high speed IO peripherals like PCIe, USB, NPU, SoC & IP level Power Management flow, Security protocols.
- Knowledge of one or more protocols; SPI, DDR, SATA, USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI.
- Good to have Post Silicon Validation Experience on CPU/Power Management/HSIO
- PCIe/USB using Embedded C and BIOS
- 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
- Bachelors or M asters degree in electrical or computer engineering #LI-PK2
Responsibilities
- Driving technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities a cross validation, 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, validation, 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