Senior Manager, Server SoC Full Chip Validation

THE ROLE:

The Senior Manager of the Full Chip Validation Engineering team is the key gatekeeper of quality for our server products with a specific emphasis on Data Fabric, RAS, Virtualization, and Security validation. The team works as an integral part of our design, product engineering, platform SW, and HW teams to ensure we launch products with highest quality standards on time as committed to our customers. The team develops and executes detailed emulation and post-silicon validation test plans to ensure functional correctness. The validation team must engage from the beginning (to ensure all elements of post-silicon validation readiness and smooth customer solution integration) and stay engaged through post-launch (as our customers continue to expand their offerings based on our products.

THE PERSON:

He/she is the lead server technical leader driving the strategy and execution of collecting (and sometimes developing) and prioritizing the best applications for the validation execution teams to utilize.

He/she will often be called upon to consult on how to replicate complex customer environments as simply as possible to support issue triage and to confirm root cause and any proposed solutions.

Sound and rapid decision-making skills, ability to handle ambiguity, and consistent visible leadership during customer engagements is a must.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Executive level communications on status, problem resolutions, and decisions required is of utmost importance given the fast-paced environment.
• Individual will partner closely with Director of the Server System Validation teams (as well as all other product development and business peers) and must be able to lead engineers as One AMD.
• A knowledge on server CPU SoC microarchitecture and system architecture w/ understanding of post- and pre-silicon flows is a must. The individual will have responsibilities in both.
• Hands-on work on a variety of different technical items on validating and debugging every functional IP/domain in modern server CPUs – key areas include coherency, security, virtualization, and RAS. These technical items will also vary in complexity end success requires growing and empowering a very strong, global, and diverse team of AMD server engineers.
• The role will involve high level visibility of the most senior leaders inside and outside of the company.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

BSEE; MSEE preferred

LOCATION:

Folsom CA area

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