Senior Product Development Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

This role is for a Senior Product Development Engineer at AMD, focusing on the debug of manufacturing and characterization test programs for next-generation microprocessors. The responsibilities include debugging test infrastructure, executing test plans, silicon characterization, data analysis, and collaborating with teams to resolve product quality issues. While the company mentions AI and data centers as areas of focus, this specific role is centered on hardware and test engineering for microprocessors, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Has responsibility for definable portion of large project or process and is responsible for quality and timely result. Primary focus is on driving execution of projects.
  2. Executes product improvement activities to reduce cost, improve yield, and resolve quality issues.
  3. Accountable for results in area and for communication of the status and interdependencies to management or senior design staff.
  4. Debugs complex infrastructure issues in hardware, software, device, or manufacturing flow domains which may involve modifying standard engineering methods.
  5. Influence technical decisions that have impact on AMD's final product.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science experience or a Master of Science in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Nice to have

  • Programming experience with C++,Java, C, or C#
  • Silicon debug using customized diagnostics and OS’s on a bench or in System Level Test platform
  • Low level software development (Assembly, BIOS)
  • Scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, shell script, or similar
  • Experience w/ PC HW debug including networking, storage, and thermal control
  • Statistical analysis experience to determine population mean and outliers
  • Pareto analysis experience to drive a debug process
  • Lean, XP, AGILE, Scrum, or Kanban processes
  • Experience with revision control (GIT, SVN, CVS, or similar)
  • Linux or Unix Operating Systems
  • Experience with Microsoft standard apps (i.e. Office) & Windows
  • Good communication skills and the ability to work with geographically distributed product engineering teams
  • General Computer Architecture concepts such as pipelining and caching, x86 architecture, and PC computer organization
  • Building computer systems (desktops, laptops, servers, etc)
  • Familiar with using logic analyzers, voltmeters, oscilloscopes, and other debug tools
  • Work experience in any of these areas preferred
  • Courses or certifications in project management (PMI, LSS, AGILE)