Memory HW Diagnostic Design Engineer – Contract
Advanced Micro Devices inc.
This is a Contract position in Markham, ON posted November 8, 2024.
WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
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 Diagnostics team is responsible for developing tests and suites that exercise and validate the
hardware blocks in the graphics and compute processors developed at AMD. We understand the features
that go into the hardware design, and we have the software skills to program them to life. Once developed
these diagnostics are used in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from pre-silicon validation through the
production life of the product.
THE PERSON
The successful candidate for this role will support our Memory Diagnostics development team, where
you’ll gain an understanding of all the HW clients that generate memory access requests, and drive
memory traffic to maximize bandwidth and stress.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Code, debug and optimize functional and stress tests for memory subsystem, virtualization and system-on-chip hardware IP
- Develop diagnostic tests to bring-up and validate HW features on pre-silicon environment (HW emulators) and post-silicon systems (HW silicon and platform)
- Identify and resolve chip, board and firmware issues
- Debug and root cause HW and SW issues, ensure high quality software engineering and hardware coverage bar
- Identify and drive improvements to framework and test architectures to improve HW coverage, debuggability, and quality
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Experience in diagnostic, device driver or firmware/embedded SW development
- Ability to closely interact with HW designers/architects and internal validation teams to solve functional HW/SW issues and support engineers for production failures/FA
- Experience in system software development on Linux
- Experience working with large-scale software development projects and understanding of PC architecture
- Proficient in C/C++ object oriented programming
- Experience in system-level verification and debugging
- Experience with source control systems (git, svn)
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and teamwork skills
- Proven debugging and testing skills
- Familiar with memory subsystems and caches
- GDDR/DDR/DRAM memory knowledge
- Good working knowledge of PCI/PCIe and external high-speed buses
- Hands-on experience with board bring up, virtual memory, virtualization, 3D graphics terminology
- Familiarity with operating systems concepts and kernel debug
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
B.Sc. in Electrical/Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent
LOCATION:
Markham, ON
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