Staff Test Engineer - Automated Test Equipment
Austin, TX$130.4k - $195.6kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Join a results-oriented Test Engineering team at AMD to impact quality, cost, and time-to-market of microprocessors. Develop characterization test plans, build software/hardware test infrastructure, and collaborate across Design, Platform Engineering, and HWI teams. Post-silicon, tackle silicon debug, performance, yield, and manufacturing challenges while driving test optimization and cost reduction.
Responsibilities
- Deliver innovative product test solutions consisting of hardware, software, and test content to achieve cost and quality requirements of the product.
- Complete post-silicon characterization, product definition, and performance optimization, and enable the internal validation team and external customers through the delivery of prototype samples.
- Optimize the overall product cost structure to maximize AMD profitability. This can include, but is not limited to, optimization of product yield, test hardware costs, and test costs.
- Collaborate with hardware design engineers and other development teams to establish specifications for infrastructure required to support production test and debug.
- Participate in the cross-discipline design process, working with Product, Design, and HWI (Hardware Infrastructure) team members to develop optimized integrated solutions.
- Identify thermal and electrical design requirements for SoC products and develop and optimize test programs to enable operation across the manufacturing process window.
- Collect and analyze data to facilitate engineering decisions during silicon hardware development.
- Validate ATE hardware and software systems to ensure they meet program objectives and troubleshoot and root cause issues.
- Work with internal teams and external partners/customers to define and release an optimal mix of SoC product variants to meet customer needs while achieving internal manufacturing and cost requirements.
- Mentor team members from both a technical and leadership perspective to grow the next generation of technical leadership within AMD.
- Develop scalable infrastructure, automation, and standardization for multiple product lines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
Skills
Required:Automated Test Equipment (ATE)Unix and Windows
Nice to have:A TE tools and patterns (Advantest V93K SMT8)SCAN, BIST, and functional ATE test pattern debuggingAI development / AI/ML for continuous improvementSemiconductor domain knowledgeComputer architecturePower/performance optimization techniquesLoad Boards / Probe CardsScripting (Python)AI/ML deployment for continuous improvementDevelopment tools (Git, VS Code, Bash)Test pattern conversion toolsLeadership and communication
Benefits
- Benefits offered are described in AMD benefits at a glance (link provided in posting).
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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