Sr. Sys/Test Validation Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Bayan Lepas, Penang (Job ID 63149-en-us)

Description

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THE ROLE:  

The Validation Enablement Team in the Strategic Silicon Solutions Engineering (S3) Department is responsible for providing support of 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 S3 Business Unit. The VE 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 S3 Engineers to keep equipment and Validation HW working. You will be an integral part of the success of the entire Penang S3 Team.

THE PERSON:  

As a Systems Test Validation Engineer, you will deliver our next generation of system tests for our products. In this high visibility position, your systems engineering expertise will be necessary to find and resolve silicon platform issues. 

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 in order to resolve first level and simple board issues.
• Work's with AMD's Silicon Validation team to help setup 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 to maintain the SCBU Margin Silicon environment
• Perform or coordinate motherboard reworks and ASIC direct mount activity (in house and external) which includes collecting and provide motherboards to the External teams, creating support tickets, communicate 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 an 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

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