Staff Post Silicon Validation Engineer (Debug)
Penang, MalaysiaFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Specialized engineering role responsible for product engineering program technical planning for next-generation AMD microprocessors, serving as a technical point of contact to design, validation, architecture, and product engineering teams.
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
- Own end-to-end functional debug of post-silicon issues across the Instinct GPU roadmap, driving root cause isolation across hardware, firmware, and software layers by correlating lab data with system-level symptoms, and partnering with design, firmware, and architecture teams to converge on fixes or documented workarounds
- Develop, maintain, and continuously expand functional test content and debug infrastructure (scripts, automation frameworks, custom fixtures) to increase bring-up and regression coverage across new Instinct silicon revisions, enabling faster triage turnaround as the program scales from early engineering samples to production
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex, intermittent, or cross-functional bugs, mentoring junior validation engineers on debug methodology and clearly communicating findings, risk assessments, and schedule impact to program management and cross-site stakeholders.
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:Technical supervision or mentoringRoot cause analysisTest pattern developmentScripting
Benefits
- Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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