Manager - Post Silicon HSIO Validation

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MANAGER OF SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEERING 

THE ROLE:  

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic, hands-on manager and technical lead to join our growing datacenter CPU post silicon validation team, in particular in the areas of highspeed IO such as Compute Express Link (CXL) and PCI Express. 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 and validation team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.   

THE PERSON:  

Strong communication and team-working skills are essential, with a validated ability to lead and influence. Validated experience inspiring change and working across functions and geographies to deliver products to specific critical metrics.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Participating and playing critical role in resource prioritization and task planning  

• Contributing to test plan design and establishing requirements  
• Providing day-to-day oversight for the team, with specific responsibilities for the feature enablement and validation of CXL, PCIe and other high speed IO features  
• While the team has technical leads for each IP, this is a technical role that requires broad system knowledge and the ability to drive technical issues to resolution  
• Problem solving – the successful candidate loves debugging complex problems and has a track record of doing so  
• Drive validation planning for each SoC program as well as execution towards program breakthroughs  

• In partnership with other global validation leaders, identify, describe, and implement changes to our post-silicon validation methodologies to increase efficiency and product quality  
• Develop strategic direction for validation automation based on team requirements  
• Manage engineers, contractors and interns including task assignment, career development and mentoring

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Prior, preferably recent, experience working within the Semiconductor industry blending both engineering expertise with team leadership skills  
• Knowledge of CXL or other HSIO domains
• Experience with automation and validation methodologies  
• Experience with pre- or post-silicon verification/validation, power, and performance analysis  
• Prior management experience  

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• BSEE/CSE/CS with 9+ years of experience or
• MSEE/CSE/CS with 7+ years of experience 

LOCATION:

Austin, TX

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.