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Failure Analysis Engineer - Server Systems Integration

AMD· Engineering
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Secaucus, New Jersey$154.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focused on end-to-end failure analysis and firmware-aware hardware bring-up for AMD's Helios server platform, driving cross-domain RCA and corrective actions to improve platform quality.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end failure analysis and root cause ownership for Helios server platform bring-up, factory, customer, and system-level failures.
  • Own platform bring-up debug across BIOS, BMC, CPLD, PMBus, POST, PCIe enumeration, high-speed interconnect initialization, resets, clocks, power sequencing, and system configuration domains.
  • Determine whether failures are caused by firmware behavior, hardware design, component quality, silicon behavior, power delivery, manufacturing process, configuration, or cross-domain interaction issues.
  • Develop and execute structured debug plans using register dumps, firmware and BIOS logs, BMC event logs, telemetry, POST codes, diagnostic results, schematics, board layouts, oscilloscope captures, and logic analyzer traces.
  • Perform power sequencing and platform readiness debug, including rail enable timing, reset behavior, clock availability, PMBus communication, voltage/current telemetry, and fault propagation analysis.
  • Validate firmware-controlled hardware behavior using scopes, logic analyzers, protocol tools, register reads, and data-driven correlation across boot, initialization, and failure states.
  • Own technical interfaces with silicon, BIOS, BMC, firmware, validation, diagnostics, hardware design, manufacturing, and supplier teams to lead cross-functional RCA and drive corrective action closure.
  • Automate debug data collection, log parsing, register analysis, and failure correlation using Python, Linux tools, scripting, and data analysis workflows.
  • Create clear technical reports, executive summaries, debug timelines, and 8D-style documentation that communicate failure mode, evidence, root cause, impact, and recommended actions.
  • Define diagnostic strategy and instrumentation needs by identifying gaps in bring-up procedures, telemetry, register visibility, platform logs, factory screens, and customer debug processes to accelerate systemic issue isolation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
  • Equivalent hands-on experience in server platform bring-up, systems integration debug, firmware-aware hardware failure analysis, validation, or complex system-level RCA will be considered.

Skills

Required:Failure analysisFirmware-aware debuggingDebug tools (oscilloscope, logic analyzer)Data analysis and automation

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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