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Pre-silicon Validation Engineer - Emulation

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BangaloreFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Pre-Silicon Validation Engineer (Emulation Validation) at AMD. Responsible for driving automated validation solutions, debugging SOC validation issues, and collaborating across teams to ensure features are validated and optimized on time. Requires hands-on experience with FPGA/emulation platforms and strong system-level validation and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

  • Driving 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
  • Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs
  • Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
  • Working closely with supporting technical teams
  • Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks

Qualifications

  • Significant 5+ years of relevant experience in complex SoC verification & Validation
  • Prior hands-on experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
  • Developing C/C++/Uefi based test content
  • Validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment
  • Debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps
  • Knowledge of low power design emulation/verification and power management fundamentals
  • Knowledge of UEFI, Windows Operating Systems, Linux
  • Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
  • Knowledge of Memory subsystem, high speed IO peripherals like PCIe, USB, NPU, SoC & IP level Power Management flow, Security protocols
  • Knowledge of one or more protocols; USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI
  • Pre-Silicon Validation Experience on SOC, Subsystems , MMIP, accelerators, CPU/Power Management/HSIO -PCIe/USB using Embedded C and BIOS (nice-to-have)
  • Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy
  • Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

Skills

Required:5+ years of SoC verification & validation experienceFPGA/emulation platformsC/C++/UEFI test content developmentHardware feature validation in pre-silicon

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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