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WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.
THE ROLE:
Step into a pivotal leadership role where you'll help bring AMD's leading-edge System-on-Chips (SoCs) to life through advanced virtual environments. As a technical leader, you'll not only drive the development of high‑performance C++ functional models that enable pre‑silicon firmware, system, driver, and application software development, but also build, manage, and grow a high‑performing engineering team.
You will lead a rapidly expanding team of engineers, setting technical direction, scaling execution, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with people management, offering high visibility, significant impact, and strong opportunities for organizational growth and career advancement.
THE PERSON:
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical challenges and crafting innovative, high‑efficiency solutions.
- Strong ability to quickly absorb cutting‑edge technologies and new concepts translate them into scalable solutions.
- Experience managing, mentoring, and growing engineering teams, including hiring, onboarding, and career development.
- Ability to scale processes, technical ownership, and team structures as the organization grows.
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to synthesize technical details and align a growing team with business priorities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Drive the development of high‑performance C++ models for AMD SoCs and platform solutions.
- Build, lead, and scale a growing team of SoC funcitonal modeling engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to enable workload execution on functional models.
- Establish and evolve best practices for model development, validation, and debugging across an expanding team.
- Design and execute comprehensive test plans using Python to validate and enhance model functionality.
- Proactively improve, stabilize, and optimize existing models to deliver best‑in‑class performance and reliability.
- Foster close technical partnerships with architecture teams to ensure deep understanding of new and emerging designs.
- Champion a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Proven experience in designing and implementing maintainable, performant, professional C++11/14/17 code.
- Familiarity with x86, ARM or GPU architecture, including drivers and applications.
- Proficiency in Linux and Windows kernel debugging.
- Prior involvement in functional modelling, architecture simulation, or hypervisor development.
- Familiarity with modelling technologies such as QEMU, VirtualBox, SystemC, Gem5, SIMICS, dynamic binary translation or JIT.
- Experience of cross-platform development for Linux and Windows environments.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
University degree in Engineering or higher or equivalent experience is preferred.
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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD's “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.
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