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Principal Pre-Silicon Verification & Post-Silicon Validation Architect

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$198.4k - $297.6kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead Test Architect for server platform firmware validation, focusing on verification methodologies, validation strategies, and automation-ready test frameworks for pre-silicon and post-silicon environments, with emphasis on AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct accelerators. AI-first engineering, innovation in validation, and cross-domain collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with firmware architects and validation teams to define platform level firmware test strategies and coverage goals.
  • Evaluate per feature verification criteria and review previous generation test plans to scope, define and develop test cases for next gen products that can run on pre-silicon (SIMICs like simulation models) or post-silicon environments
  • Implement end-to-end test flows that validate firmware functionality across boot and runtime, producing repeatable artifacts (logs, register dumps, SOL captures) for effective triage and defect closure
  • Help generate requirements to enhance simulation platforms so much of post silicon level tests can be exercised on pre-silicon environments
  • Execute tests, debug failures, and collaborate with firmware developers to drive timely defect resolution
  • Contribute to test strategy and coverage analysis, with emphasis on system-level firmware / hardware interactions and cross-domain dependencies.
  • Enhance test infrastructure to improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and optimize reporting/triage workflows.
  • Typical effort split: ~80% test design & development, ~20% execution & troubleshooting.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, LLM-based coding assistants, automated test-generation tools, or similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of how generative AI can be applied to software development, test automation, debug analysis, and engineering productivity.
  • Experience developing AI-assisted automation workflows, agent-based systems, or data-driven validation frameworks is highly desirable.
  • Relevant experience in firmware/software development, validation, or test development.
  • Strong communicator and collaborator; comfortable working in cross functional teams
  • Strong foundation in computer architecture and enterprise server platform features, hands-on experience with SoC validation or system level bring up and low-level debugging.
  • Proven ability to scope pre-silicon tests and work with simulation/emulation teams to make virtual platforms useful for system level validation. Knowledge of Simics or equivalent full system simulators is a significant plus
  • Practical experience writing test code and tools in C and/or C++, and scripting in Python, Perl or Bash
  • Experience or knowledge in BIOS / UEFI concepts (e.g., ACPI, SMBIOS tables, DXE etc), RAS features and validation, Memory subsystem validation, Power management and telemetry, Platform security features (TPM, SPDM, Secure Boot, RoT-based attestation, PQC), Virtualization and firmware enablement (ACPI, SR-IOV), High-speed I/O validation (PCIe, CXL), Sideband protocols (MCTP, SPDM, PLDM, RDE).

Skills

Required:AI-assisted test automationFirmware validationC/C++ programmingPython/Perl/Bash scripting

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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