Staff Validation Technologist for Epyc and Amd Instinct

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

Staff Validation Technologist for EPYC and AMD Instinct at AMD, focusing on the technical ownership of end-to-end validation strategy, architecture, and execution at scale for AMD Servers. The role involves designing and evolving validation coverage strategy to maximize bug discovery, minimize customer escapes, and align validation with real-world customer usage, as well as driving technical innovation in validation processes and tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. design and continuously evolve validation coverage strategy
  2. Drive technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across validation, including content, tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
  3. Assess customer escapes and translate them into structured validation test plans that systematically close coverage gaps, prevent recurrence.
  4. Evaluate customer impact of gaps and mitigate risks prior to production
  5. Lead collaborative approach with multiple teams across AMD to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time

Skills

Required

  • pre-silicon + post-silicon validation exposure including system-level validation
  • validation architect roles in the past in Client, SoC or Server
  • system architecture
  • technical debug
  • validation strategy
  • Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python)
  • analytical/problem-solving skills
  • attention to details
  • self-starter
  • leadership & communication skills
  • customer orientation

What the JD emphasized

  • maximizing bug discovery
  • minimizing customer escapes
  • aligning validation with real-world customer usage
  • customer escapes