Senior Systems Design Engineer
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What you do at AMD changes everything
We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry our communities and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences the building blocks for the data center artificial intelligence PCs gaming and our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limitsof innovation to solve the worlds most important strive forexecution excellence while beingdirecthumblecollaborativeandinclusiveof diverse perspectives. This is who we are at our best. One Company. One Team.
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THE ROLE:
AGESA BIOS team at AMD is looking for a software/firmware developer to join the team and help develop pre-OS BIOS firmware and silicon initialization code. As part of the role the BIOS engineer will work closely with other firmware developers and architects in designing and implementing X86 and/or ARM firmware that spans pre- and post-silicon for all AMD business units.
THE PERSON:
Passionate about firmware development on bare-metal or close to bare-metal environment. Need strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative can-do attitude. Strong knowledge of computer architecture and low-level programming in C
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Developing porting debugging and documenting core firmware support for configuration and enablement of various features including PCI Express and related functionality DRAM technologies (DDR4 DDR5) internal graphics IO virtualization SOC power management etc. on AMD Desktop Mobile and Enterprise SoCs
- Supporting emulation/simulation teams during pre-silicon phase to validate SOC hardware and firmware components.
- Working closely with hardware validation teams to verify and optimize performance of IP subsystems.
- Developing custom firmware features for internal and external customers.
- Engage with technical leads to understand firmware scope and work on implementation to meet schedules and milestones.
- Work with internal and external teams to ensure highest level of quality and satisfaction throughout firmware lifecycle.
- Must be well-organized technically oriented and a self-starter with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and coordinate activities with geographically distributed technical teams.
- Desire to work and succeed on fast-paced and highly dynamic environments
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelors or Masters degree (preferred) in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 1-5 years of experience
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Development and support of multi-root PCI Express subsystems for Enterprise systems including extensions such as Universal Backplane Management Compute Express Link hot-plug etc.
- Strong background in computer architecture with familiarity in memory interleaving system memory maps and NUMA domain concepts
- Familiarity with memory industry standards and technologies such as JEDEC SPD Data I2C/I3C DDR4/5 LPDDR4/4x/5/5x UDIMM RDIMM LRDIMM 3DS ECC Mode Registers Self-Refresh etc.
- Experience with or knowledge of DRAM Initialization/training algorithms memory timings addressing overclocking etc.
- Good understanding of firmware development cycle integration and verification/validation for pre-si and post-si for SoC designs.
- Expertise in low-level C programming & debugging for embedded systems.
- Ability to methodically root-cause complex failure mechanisms at the IP subsystem and/or system level.
- Prior experience and/or exposure to testing platforms (Simulation and/or Emulation)
- Prior involvement in board processor or ASIC bring-up.
- In-depth UEFI BIOS development experience with familiarity on at least one BIOS code base (AMI Insyde or Phoenix BIOS) preferred
- Experience in hardware/software interfaces and debugging sophisticated issues in CPU and firmware using JTAG source code debuggers and other tools.
- Experience with source control systems including git/gerrit
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
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Requisition Number:173882
Country/Region/Location:ChinaState/Province:ShanghaiCity:Shanghai
Job Function:Design
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
