Software Development Test Engineer Lead, AI Platform

Amd

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$204,000–$306,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 27, 2027

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Above market

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About Amd

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors

Amd currently has 500 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $172,000–$258,000 across 500 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Development Test Engineer Lead, AI Platform

The Software Development Test Engineer Lead AI Platform joins a core team of industry specialists to improve the performance of key applications and benchmarks. This role involves working with architecture specialists to design and develop groundbreaking technologies, participating in new ASIC and hardware bring-ups, and applying a data-minded approach to target optimization efforts. The engineer will debug existing issues, research efficient alternatives, and lead a small validation team to define priorities and mentor others. Key technical requirements include expertise in optical transceiver validation, PCIe architecture, link training, device discovery, and PCIe enumeration. Candidates should also possess experience with PCIe virtualization technologies like SR-IOV. The role focuses on system-level validation and debugging across hardware, firmware, and software components for the AI Platform, PCIe, and Optical product areas.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies and hardware architectures.
  • Lead and execute optical transceiver validation for functionality, performance, and compliance.
  • Drive platform bring-up, validation, and issue resolution across hardware, firmware, and software.
  • Debug and fix existing system issues while researching more efficient technical solutions.
  • Apply a data-minded approach to target software and hardware optimization efforts.
  • Lead a small validation team by defining priorities and mentoring engineers.
  • Validate PCIe architecture, link training, device discovery, and SR-IOV virtualization technologies.
  • Collaborate with architecture specialists to improve future product performance and benchmarks.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Strong software engineering and leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across the organization.
  • Lead and execute optical transceiver validation activities, including functionality, interoperability, performance, reliability, and compliance testing (preferred).
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of PCIe architecture, link training, device discovery, and PCIe enumeration mechanisms (preferred).
  • Experience with PCIe virtualization technologies, including SR-IOV (preferred).
  • Ability to technically lead a small validation/platform team, define priorities, and mentor engineers (preferred).
  • Proven experience collaborating effectively with remote and geographically distributed teams (preferred).

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