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Senior Software Automation Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Cambridge)Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Pure software/infrastructure role at AMD focusing on designing, building, and maintaining the automation platform for large-scale test execution across Linux, Windows, and hardware emulation platforms. Responsibilities include CI pipelines, scheduling, and reporting to surface test results; no hardware design or test writing is required.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain continuous integration and regression environments that run large-scale test suites – owned by validation, design, and other teams – across Linux and Windows platforms.
  • Design and maintain a scalable execution engine to efficiently utilize machine and storage resources.
  • Design and maintain databases to manage assets, releases, and results.
  • Integrate and support hardware emulation platforms as an execution target within the automation flow.
  • Improve our validation automation eco-system and infrastructure.
  • Influence and align other tools teams to converge on common CI / regression methodologies.
  • Collaborate with other tools teams, Architects, and the Design & Verification team to ensure quality releases and clear presentation of complex results.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic / Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • Solid software engineering experience building automation, tooling, or infrastructure, with strong proficiency in Python and shell scripting.
  • Hands-on experience developing and maintaining software across both Linux and Windows environments.
  • Experience designing or operating regression / CI systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent) and job schedulers such as LSF or Slurm.
  • Experience designing databases and services to manage large volumes of assets, releases, and results, and building reporting / dashboards over them.
  • Experience with QEMU or similar software emulation/virtualization platforms for running and scaling test workloads
  • Comfort operating compute and storage resources at scale, optimizing throughput, reliability, and turnaround time.
  • Working knowledge of version control (Git), build systems, and general DevOps / release-engineering practices.

Skills

Required:PythonShell scriptingLinuxWindowsCI/CD systems
Nice to have:Job schedulersDatabasesQEMU or emulation platforms

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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