System Validation Engineer

THE ROLE:

The Validation Enablement Team in the Strategic Silicon Solutions Engineering Department is responsible for providing support for all Validation efforts on next generation microprocessors (CPU), Acceleration Processing Units (APU), Graphics Processing Units (GPU), Discrete graphic solutions and any other silicon or board solutions developed at AMD for specific customers of the Business Unit. The Validation Enablement Team is looking for a Sr Lab Support Engineer to support the bring up of a new lab infrastructure, support sustaining of that infrastructure and work with all Engineers to keep equipment and Validation Hardware working. You will be an integral part of the success of the entire Penang Team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assemble and perform functional test on newly designed and incoming boards including but not limited to installing sockets, processor, heat sink, HDD and then perform boot test to ensure functionality. Also requires the ability to track status of tested hardware and deliver to the end user locally
• Coordinate shipping and inventory logistics globally such as boards, hardware and ASICs as directed by various teams to the various global Validation Teams.
• Use protocol analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers and other tools to isolate and debug device and hardware problems to resolve first level and simple board issues.
• Works with Silicon Validation team to help set up various systems and infrastructure to support bring up of new and existing programs. Includes imagining HDD with the latest Windows or Linux images, collecting HW or SW to assist the various team or other lab duties as needed.
• Perform or coordinate the implementation of Lab equipment Maintenance on Thermal heads, Chillers Scope or Analyzer Calibration and maintain the SCBU Margin Silicon environment
• Perform or coordinate motherboard reworks and ASIC direct mount activity (in house and external) which includes collecting and providing motherboards to the External teams, creating support tickets, communicating directions and schedules to both external team and the requestor, provide status updates and then distribute complete reworks back to the requestors.
• Maintain Lab Inventory records and manage expendable supplies to quarterly budgets
• Execute pass/fail testing as bandwidth allows
• Works on related projects or assignments as needed.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Post-silicon system integration
• Familiarity with pre-silicon environments (Verification, Emulation, Bring-Up)
• Debugging skills at SoC (System on a Chip) and System level
• Experience with Computer Architecture concepts and silicon features
• Organization and attention to detail is a must.
• Computer enthusiasts and excellent knowledge of current leading PC (Personal Computer) technology
• Effective communication skills working across large multi-functional HW, SW, architecture teams

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent.

LOCATION:

Penang, Malaysia