Principal Engineer – Memory Training Architecture Job Listing at AMD in Hyderabad, TS (Job ID 84482-en-us)

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Principal Engineer – Memory Training Architecture

The Role

As a Principal Engineer in the Memory Training Development team, you will provide architectural leadership and deep technical ownership for next‑generation memory training solutions across DDR5, LPDDR5, and LPDDR6. You will shape long‑term technical direction, define robust architectures, and drive innovation in high‑speed memory training algorithms that enable high‑quality silicon products.

This role emphasizes enduring technical impact—influencing designs across multiple generations, guiding critical trade‑offs, and ensuring execution excellence—without people management as a primary responsibility.

The Person

You are a recognized technical authority who consistently solves complex, ambiguous problems and elevates engineering quality across organizations. You influence through technical depth, judgment, and collaboration, and are equally effective operating at architectural, algorithmic, and hands‑on implementation levels.

You are comfortable owning high‑risk technical decisions, working across organizational boundaries, and driving clarity in uncertain problem spaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and integrate DDR memory controller calibration solutions—including RTL logic, firmware routines, and algorithmic flows—into AMD's system-level validation and bring-up environments. Ensure seamless interaction between hardware and firmware components, delivering reliable calibration performance aligned with silicon and platform requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a principal technical authority for memory training architecture and development
• Define and evolve end‑to‑end memory training architectures and specifications for DDR5, LPDDR5, and LPDDR6
• Drive innovation in high‑speed memory training algorithms, robustness, and convergence strategies
• Develop and refine calibration algorithms to ensure reliable memory initialization and operation under varying process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions. Focus on improving accuracy, convergence speed, and adaptability of calibration routines
• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across Circuit Design, Architecture, Logic Design, Design Verification, and Post‑Silicon teams globally
• Influence design quality through architecture reviews, deep technical mentorship, and principled trade‑off decisions
• Lead and support post‑silicon bring‑up, validation, characterization, optimization, and product readiness efforts
• Create and execute validation plans to verify the correctness and performance of calibration firmware and algorithms. Perform system-level bring-up and debug activities to identify and resolve issues related to memory training and stability
• Work closely with silicon design, verification, and system engineering teams to align calibration firmware with hardware capabilities and system requirements. Ensure seamless integration and interoperability across the full memory subsystem
• Develop clear and comprehensive documentation for calibration flows, firmware APIs, and algorithm behavior. Ensure alignment with JEDEC specifications and internal design guidelines
• Stay updated with emerging DDR technologies and calibration techniques. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve calibration robustness, reduce boot time, and support next-generation memory interfaces
• Clearly articulate complex technical concepts to senior technical peers, architects, and leadership

Preferred Experience

• Proven record of sustained, high‑impact contributions to memory training architecture and silicon delivery
• Experience owning or shaping architectural direction across multiple product generations
• Deep understanding of DDR memory systems and controller/PHY interactions (DDR5, LPDDR5, LPDDR6)
• Been exposed to memory controller and PHYs from different IP vendors
• Hands‑on experience with post‑silicon bring‑up and lab‑based validation
• Digital design and experience with RTL design in Verilog/SystemVerilog, Knowledge of system-level architecture including buses like AXI/AHB, bridges
• Circuit timing/STA, and practical experience with tools
• Working knowledge of silicon packaging and PCB design, with awareness of signal and power integrity
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical decisions in complex, high‑risk design spaces
• Strong influence skills without formal authority; effective cross‑organizational collaborator
• Working knowledge of C; embedded experience a plus
• Version control systems such as Perforce, ICManage or Git
• Familiar with industry standard lab tools (such as: high speed scope, compliance packages, logic analyzers) is a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Should have experience working in geographically dispersed team and should be a strong team player

Academic Credentials

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically 15+ years of experience in logic design, including significant depth in memory training.

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