SMTS Firmware Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Taipei City (Job ID 49515-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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THE ROLE: 

The AMD Data Center GPU Remote Management team is looking for an experienced senior test engineer tosetup, build, perform and maintain automated testing infrastructure involving both hardware and software.The Device Under Test (DUT) interacts with cutting edge Data Center GPUs. The successful applicant willwork closely with firmware developers, system architects, system validation engineers, manufacturing and diags engineers,  and board designers.

THE PERSON: 

You are passionate about firmware development with creative and effective problem-solving skills, a motivated, self-starter who can work both independently and collaboratively in fast paced environments. You have excellent technical communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Define, build, execute and maintain test infrastructure for end-to-end out of band management firmware.
• Create automated test plans built using the infrastructure to perform various tests including sanity tests, black box tests, functional tests and regression tests from DUT specifications and interaction with software developers.
• From a great deal of intuition, develop negative tests to actively try to break product and expose flaws before product is deployed in production
• Setup hardware to facilitate remote/local test execution firmware in the lab.
• Reproduce defects and validate defect fixes found during testing, development, or in production code. Provide logs and statistics that will help in further triaging of defects.
• Provide feedback to design team on bugs and Design For Testability feature requests
• Integrate automated testing in CI/CD environment (e.g. Jenkins)
  • Leading multi-disciplinary debug efforts 
  • Follow and improve quality processes (code reviews, CI, code test generations) 
  • Design for Quality 
  • Provide consultation to internal and external stakeholders regarding AMD features ,programming and testing requirements  
    • End to end Out Of Band Management, including Management Controllers, FPGAs and uCs 
    • DMTF PMCI compliant PLDM, MCTP, SMBUS, Redfish and SPDM solutions 
    • AMD Proprietary RMI and SMI interfaces 
    • OCP compliant and customer feature aligned secure solutions 
  • Lead Debug and test implementation of: 

SKILLSET:

• Proven test bench setup experience with expertise in embedded systems
• Able to read and interpret board schematics
• Software Programming and scripting experience (Python, bash, C/C++) in Windows and Linux operating systems.
• PC/server environment H/W and S/W setup and administration.
• Familiarity with various embedded protocols including but not limited to I2C, SPI, USB, PCIe, TCP/IP, etc.
• Basic networking skills
• Comfortable working in different operating system environment including Windows and Linux
• Team player with strong communication skills and able to work in a dynamic environment
• Must be a self-starter capable of working with minimal supervision and driving tasks to completion
• Experience with Out Of Band management of servers and its components in a data center environment
• Experience with power supplies monitoring and sequencing 
• Experience with HW and SW fault detection and management 
• Experience with Design For Manufacturing (DFM) and Design For Testability (DFT) 
• Experience with databases 
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PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Minimum 12 - 15 yrs experience in SW/firmware and test development for embedded systems
• Minimum 5 - 8 yrs experience in test bench setup & development

ASSETS: 

• Familiarity with Out Of Band management of servers and its components in a data center environment
• Knowledgeable in industry standard protocols like IPMI FRU, MCTP, PLDM, Redfish, etc.
• Familiarity with microcontroller architecture (ARM, x86) and embedded system build tool suites
• Version control and CI/CD systems like git, jenkins, etc..
• Mentoring skills an asset
• Experience with Graphics a plus
• Experience with BMC a plus
• Experience with uC build environment (build scripts, make, git, Visual Basic for Applications)
• Experience with uC programming / debug (ARM Cortex M4)

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferred) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

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