Sr. Silicon Design Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Boxborough, MA (Job ID 60139-en-us)

Description

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We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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Job Role and Responsibility: AMD, Inc. is hiring a Sr. Silicon Design Engineer to drive technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives; debug tools along with in-depth hardware and software knowledge to debug reported performance gaps; serve as a workload tool and automation architect to enable workload evaluations across multiple platforms with minimal effort; optimize performance characteristics and internals of AMD Server CPU hardware (EPYC), including 5 generations of Zen cores; develop and enhance AMD CPU hardware, focusing on workload analysis, tracing and simulation flows, using software tools for performance debug and optimization; implement algorithms, and integrate new features and optimizations into tool suite; debug and resolve issues, working directly with the customers to address shortcomings and optimize performance; and analyze problem reports, investigating root cause, and implement fixes or workarounds to ensure that tools function correctly and efficiently.

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Travel required: NO 
Qualifications: Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
Amount and type of experience required: Three (3) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering role.
Employer will accept alternate combination of education and experience: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 60 months of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or closely related engineering role.

Specific skills required: 
Position requires three (3) years of experience in the following skills:
• CPU performance counter analysis and debug;
• CPU microarchitecture performance analysis, debug, and optimization;
• OS kernel & systems development;
• Memory management and multi-threading;
• Code optimization using the GPU or software performance analysis;
• Software debugging (macOS, Linux, or Unix);
• Data structures;
• x86-64 architecture; and
• Instruction Tracing tools.

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.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.