Senior Post Silicon Validation Engineer (PCIe / HSIO)
Hybrid (Penang, Malaysia)Full-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior Product Development Engineer role focusing on validation and interop for PCIe and high-speed I/O interfaces across AMD product roadmap, from silicon bring-up to production sign-off.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with design, validation, and architecture teams for content coverage, test pattern development, validation, and debugging
- Develop test program infrastructure incorporating latest Best-Known methods
- Solves sophisticated, novel, and non-recurring problems; initiates significant changes to existing processes/methods and leads development and implementation
- Identify and plan product improvement activities to reduce cost, improve yield and resolve quality issues
- Lead functional and compliance validation of PCIe and other high-speed I/O interfaces (e.g., xGMI, CXL, USB, SATA) across the product roadmap, owning test plan development for link training/LTSSM, speed and width negotiation, equalization, power management states (ASPM, L1 substates), and error handling/recovery, from early silicon bring-up through production sign-off
- Drive root cause analysis on complex HSIO signal integrity and protocol-level failures using protocol analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, and eye-diagram/margin analysis, distinguishing silicon defects from board-level SI issues, firmware bugs, and third-party interoperability problems, and driving resolution with design, firmware, and PHY teams
- Plan and execute multi-vendor interoperability and PCI-SIG compliance testing across a broad ecosystem of endpoints, switches, and root complexes, representing the team at compliance workshops and owning the errata/known-issues documentation that informs respin and workaround decisions
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer engineering or computer science or electrical engineering, or comparable disciplines.
- Experience with being responsible for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
- Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, shell script
- Proficient in Linux, Unix, or Windows OS
- Statistical analysis experience to resolve population mean and outliers
- Deep knowledge of computer architecture is preferred
Skills
Required:Test pattern developmentTest program infrastructurePCIe / HSIO validationRoot cause analysisInteroperability testing
Nice to have:Scripting
Benefits
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Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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