SoC Diagnostics Software Engineer - Contract Job Listing at AMD in Markham, ON (Job ID 63217-en-us)

Description

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THE ROLE:

As a SoC Diagnostic Software Engineer, you will work with a cross-functional organization to plan, develop, and validate test content and automation for AMD's manufacturing test program.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate has experience with firmware or software development with close interactions with hardware or product engineering team, effective communication and problem-solving skills, and is a forward thinker and has passion to drive for improving development processes, code quality and hardware diagnostic coverage.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand new technologies and new features in ASIC design specifications, design sufficient test coverage plan and develop diagnostics test cases with high code quality.
• Deliver diagnostics test suites to bring-up and enable ASIC features on both pre-silicon (emulation) environments and post-silicon hardware system.
• Optimize the test execution time per AMD program requirements without coverage sacrifice.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to achieve the key program milestones, such as bring up, all feature enablement, performance profiling, production support, customer issue debugging, etc.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Skilled C or modern C++ programming under Linux, including device driver, user space software, shell/perl scripts, GCC/JTAG toolchains, etc.
• Strong low-level software and system level debugging and test skills, and capability to quickly identify problems and provide robust solutions.
• Hands-on experience with SoC emulation and bring up is preferred.
• Good understanding of x86/ARM architecture and experience with BIOS, GPU, PCIe firmware development is a plus.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.

LOCATION:

CA,ON,Markham

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