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Pre-silicon Validation Engineer - Emulation

India, Bangalore · Job Posted May 28, 2026
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We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD's product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

Job Responsibility

  • Driving technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
  • Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs
  • Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
  • Working closely with supporting technical teams
  • Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks

Requirements

  • Significant 5+ years of relevant experience in complex SoC verification & Validation
  • Prior hands-on experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
  • Developing C/C++/Uefi based test content
  • Validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment
  • Debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps
  • Knowledge of low power design emulation/verification and power management fundamentals
  • Knowledge of UEFI, Windows Operating Systems, Linux
  • Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
  • Knowledge of Memory subsystem, high speed IO peripherals like PCIe, USB, NPU, SoC & IP level Power Management flow, Security protocols
  • Knowledge of one or more protocols
  • USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI
  • Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy
  • Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details
  • Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering

Nice to have

Good to have Pre-Silicon Validation Experience on SOC, Subsystems , MMIP, accelerators, CPU/Power Management/HSIO -PCIe/USB using Embedded C and BIOS

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