PLATFORM EMULATION ENGINEER

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PLATFORM EMULATION ENGINEER

THE ROLE:  

AMD is seeking a Platform Emulation Engineer to join our Data Center GPU organization. Our products support the rapidly scaling Data Center and High-Performance Compute infrastructure. You will be an integral member of the Platform emulation team responsible for emulation infrastructure development, execution and debug of critical firmware used in our HPC and ML products, developing test plans and execute test cases to enhance silicon test coverage, train and support validation teams on emulation technology, build and execute industry standard  HPC benchmarks and applications on the emulator.

THE PERSON:  

As a platform emulation engineer you will have an opportunity to work on bleeding edge SoC architecture and technology and participate in development of emulation infrastructure to enable pre-silicon activities to ensure high quality Silicon and fast time to market. You will work alongside our team of innovative engineers to support the deployment of AMD’s Instinct ML products targeting Supercomputers and Data Center workloads.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

CPU/GPU Firmware/OS bring up and debug using leading edge emulators (Veloce, Zebu, Palladium)

Develop/modify/enhance functional/stress tests to find silicon bugs on emulator

Validate features in firmware including but not limited to RAS, Resets, Power management, Secure boot, Virtualization

Validate multi-socket configurations in emulation using firmware

Bring up the full AMD graphics software stack in emulation

Bring up ML/AI applications in emulation – Collaborate with workloads and SW teams, run apps in multi-socket configurations, collect and interpret results for debug and tuning

Checkout of IP features in software simulation model as a pre-step for emulation

Interface with Central Emulation team responsible for helping to develop, debug and establish CPU/GPU Emulation environment

Provide debug leadership, input to test plans and hands on execution

Work 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

Attend weekly meetings, status communication, presentations.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

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 and Hybrid Emulation environment with Emulation transactors.

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, DPI, 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 secure platform concepts such as Root of Trust, Chain of Trust, FW signing, encryption

Knowledge of platform management HW and SW components such as BMC, SMC and board management software libraries

Knowledge of HPC, Parallel programming (OpenMP, OpenMPI), heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPU and GPU a plus

Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environment and shell scripting

Experience in Building and Installing software packages on Linux platform 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, electronics or computer engineering with 7+Yrs of exp

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.