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Company: AMD
Location: Markham, ON, Canada
Career Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industries: Technology, Software, IT, Electronics

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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THE ROLE:

The diagnostics team is responsible for developing test suites that exercise and validate the hardware blocks in the System-on-chips developed at AMD. We understand the features that go into the hardware design, and we have the software skills to program them to life. Once developed, these diagnostics are used in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from pre-silicon validation through the production life of the product. The successful candidate for this role will be an integral part of our power management diagnostics software team through code development, debug, emulation and hardware feature validation.

 

THE PERSON:

Is passionate about software development, computer hardware and architecture and understands low-level coding techniques for manipulating bits in registers and memory blocks. Is a self-starting team player with excellent communication and problem solving skills, and a strong desire to learn.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Implement/rewrite code across different framework, C++ versions, or Python versions.
  • Participate in running code on remote systems at different stage of product lifecycle.
  • Triage, debug, and root cause SW issues, execute/coordinate testing to ensure high quality software engineering and hardware coverage.
  • Identify and help resolve ASIC, board, and firmware issues, provide diagnostics support to corresponding engineering teams.
  • Perform code analysis across products to improve cross leverage.
  • Communicating with multiple stakeholders frequently during the whole product lifecycle.

 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

  • Proficient in C & modern C++ (C++20 or above) object-oriented programming, and Python.
  • Software code testing and debugging.
  • Experience in system software development on Linux.
  • Experience with tools like git, jama, jira, perforce, qtest etc.
  • Working with remote team within/across time zone and reporting status regularly.
  • Experience in power, clock, thermal related HW specification and operation.
  • Experience in device driver, firmware or embedded SW development.
  • Working with large-scale software development projects and understanding of PC architecture.

 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in electrical/computer/mechatronics engineering, software engineering, computer science, or mathematics.

 

 

LOCATION:

CA,ON,Markham

 

 

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Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

 

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.


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