Silicon Design Engineer

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SILICON DESIGN ENGINEER
THE ROLE:
We are seeking individuals with a desire to address challenging problems on a daily basis. Virtual Bring-Up (VBU) is a premiere central methodology team that strives towards excellence, utilizes novel industry technologies and comes up with innovative ways to address execution challenges.
THE PERSON:
As part of VBU, you will work across AMD's product portfolio to develop and enable methodology and tools to tackle key design cycle challenges for the company by leveraging acceleration, hardware emulation and prototyping technologies. You will have a serious level of opportunity to learn, grow and excel in this role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own system implementation from rack level to datacenter

• Define network requirements and integration into AMD network
• Work with AMD IT and VBU team on implementation and integration
• Define separate SyncE/PTP network for system clocks and synchronization
• Work with vendors on SyncE/PTP requirements
• Component selection (switches, precision clock generation, GPS clock)
• Building test setups
• Investigate rack management requirements and define solutions
• Investigate OCP solution and existing implementations
• Work with AMD IT and VBU team on implementation and integration
• Board management (BMC) software and system level integration
• Create system assembly instructions
• Write rack assembly instructions
• Write multi-rack setup instructions

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experienced with Python, shell scripting, and C
• OS - ARM based Linux distribution
• AMD Vitis / PetaLinux for building kernel and deploying on board
• Experienced with BMC firmware
• Sound knowledge of xSPI / I2C / eMMC
• Clock management and firmware deployment
• Power configuration and monitoring
• Experience with PTP / 1588 clock synchronization stack
• Understanding of basic PCIe Applications and interfacing with drivers
• Good lab experience and debugging skills

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/electrical engineering

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.
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