WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING:

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.THE ROLE:
AMD’s Strategic Applications Engineering Organization is responsible for supporting our Sales and Field Applications engineers to drive design wins and support customers in achieving production.

We are looking for our next team member to advise customers on design approaches to achieve optimal results.

THE PERSON: Does this sound like you? We’d love to talk!

• Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and many priorities at once
• A standout colleague with excellent collaborative skills, and ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills and demonstrated success in building strong technical relationships (internal: Sales, Marketing, Engineering and external: OEM)
• Attention to detail combined with outstanding planning and organizational skills

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with AMD Sales and Field Applications engineers to drive design wins and support customers in achieving production

• Advise customers and sales team on design approaches to achieve optimal solutions, focused on embedded software architecture, optimization for AMD architecture. This may include some hardware aspects which include clocking and logic in programmable devices.

• Train customers on embedded software design methodologies for x86, FPGAs and So Cs

• Build hardware/software platforms using AMD’s Vitis and Vivado tools

• Customize IP as needed to create reference designs for customers

• Support customers in debug of challenging design problems

• Provide regular feedback to AMD development teams on customers’ application experiences and potential tools and IP improvements

• Occasional travel to customer sites required

• Preferred Experience

• FPGA/SoC design flow experience

• Experience developing functional FPGA designs in RTL (Verilog/VHDL)

• Proven expertise in software build systems including Yocto, Petalinux, EDF, Platform Designer, or Lattice Micro

• Ability to read, write, and debug drivers and application programs in C/C++

• Ability to build and test Linux patches

• Familiarity with OSes such as QNX, VXWorks, Zephyr - toolchain, drivers, reference designs

• Experience with CPU/GPU system optimization, tuning, and benchmarking

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong presentation skills, and the ability to work effectively with multiple groups and external partners

Education Requirements:

BS or MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

LOCATION: Boston, MA or Northeast

Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.