Sr. Ddr Validation Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

This role is for a Senior DDR Validation Engineer at AMD, focusing on validating DDR features and functionality within AMD's server platform portfolio. Responsibilities include debugging issues across various program phases, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving validation capabilities through tool and script development. The role requires programming and scripting skills, familiarity with DDR protocols and memory subsystems, and experience with lab equipment for debug.

What you'd actually do

  1. Validation of DDR features and functionality across the server product line
  2. Debugging issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SoC programs
  3. Collaborating closely with cross-functional technical teams including design, architecture, and software
  4. Engaging with hardware and software modeling frameworks to broaden validation coverage
  5. Driving technical innovation to improve AMD's validation capabilities, including tool and script development, methodology enhancement, and cross-functional technical initiatives

Skills

Required

  • Programming and scripting skills (e.g., C/C++, Python, Perl, Ruby)
  • Familiarity with DDR protocols, memory subsystem architecture, and validation methodology
  • Debug experience using common lab equipment such as protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes
  • Experience with board and platform-level debug
  • Knowledge of system architecture, technical debug strategy, and validation planning
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with pronounced attention to detail
  • Self-starter who can independently drive tasks to completion