Principal Validation Architect - Data Center GPU
Hybrid (Austin, TX)$200kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior validation architect role focused on defining and guiding validation strategy for AMD's next-generation AI, ML, and HPC data center GPUs and platforms. Combines architectural thinking with hands-on validation, debug, and leadership to drive scalable validation solutions and improve product quality and time-to-market.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve AMD's validation strategy for next-generation AI, ML, and HPC accelerators, establishing scalable methodologies, coverage models, and validation frameworks that improve product quality and reduce time-to-market.
- Drive validation innovation across the product lifecycle, influencing observability, controllability, debuggability, emulation, and automation capabilities to enable more efficient validation and faster root-cause analysis.
- Provide architectural leadership for complex silicon and platform challenges, guiding resolution of issues involving coherency, memory subsystems, power management, security, PCIe, and HW/SW interactions while advancing debug methodologies and infrastructure.
- Partner with silicon architects and technical leaders across engineering organizations to develop validation approaches for emerging technologies, including advanced GPU architectures, HBM memory systems, coherent interconnects, and large-scale AI infrastructure.
- Champion the adoption of modern technologies and best practices, including AI-assisted validation workflows, at-scale validation environments, and data-driven quality methodologies that improve execution efficiency and product readiness.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline. Master's degree preferred.
Skills
Required:Validation architectureGPU/SoC/data center platform validationDebug and system-level debuggingProgramming in C/C++ and Python
Nice to have:Linux and Windows server environments
Benefits
- Benefits offered are described in AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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