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Sr. Systems Design Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$112.6kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

AMD is seeking a Sr. Systems Design Engineer to join the CGC‑Tools team, developing and sustaining advanced debug infrastructure for client, graphics, and custom product lines. The role spans end‑to‑end debug capabilities, JTAG over USB‑C solutions, automated data capture, and scalable analysis across silicon lifecycles from bring‑up to production, with collaboration across multiple teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

  • Study upcoming SOCs and identify areas in need of advanced debug tools
  • Work with IP teams to acquire functional understanding of IP blocks and procedures for making operational health assessments of the IP block’s state
  • Work with firmware teams to instrument debug data into mission mode firmware
  • Work with IP teams to influence the addition of DFD features into future silicon
  • Write specs to outline how to perform debug data collection for in-chip microcontrollers responsible for executing debug actions
  • Build Python libraries that can capture debug data and evaluate the health of an IP block
  • Contribute to JTAG tools hardware development
  • Contribute to JTAG tools software development
  • Contribute to Automated Debug System debug service distributed application
  • Build and monitor automated QA execution of debug tools setup as CI/CD pipelines
  • Assist in the construction of K8 containers to execute the debug service
  • Work with regional Customer Engineering teams to enable AMD debug features within end customer designs
  • Work with IT and infosec to enable secure VPN tunnel for JTAG devices

Qualifications

  • x86 system knowledge
  • SOC internal architecture
  • JTAG HW tools
  • Python, C, Java, JavaScript
  • Kubernetes containers
  • Linux
  • USB
  • System level debugging
  • BIOS
  • Firmware development
  • Platform design
  • Validation knowledge
  • Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details
  • Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
  • Debug techniques and methodologies
  • Good communication skills
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Skills

Required:JTAGPythonLinuxDebug
Nice to have:CJavaJavaScriptKubernetesBIOS
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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