The Role:

The AMD Client & Graphics (CG organization) Systems Engineering team needs a dynamic, energetic Senior Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership to our growing Virtualization Feature Enablement & Validation team.  The CGSE team is a key element of AMD’s strategy to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market.  As a Senior Technical Lead, you will be leading a team who is responsible for end-to-end technical execution of feature enablement, validation and debugging of integrated systems with multiple IPs, such as SRIOV, RAS, RM, Clustering, and server technologies.

The Person:

• A hands-on technical leader who guides and supports the team, fostering collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence
• A dependable team player who creates an inclusive, collaborative work environment and leads by example
• An effective communicator with strong listening skills, able to align the team and clearly articulate technical direction, expectations, and tradeoffs
• Possesses broad system-level knowledge with strong debugging and problem-solving skills, motivated by complex, cross0domain technical challenges
• Combines deep systems thinking and debug expertise with pragmatic project execution, continuous improvement in validation methodologies and tooling, and effective cross0team collaboration

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and lead end-to-end execution of CG
  9VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) feature enablement and validation strategy across multiple programs, spanning pre
  9silicon and post
  9silicon phases, including prioritization, planning, and delivery commitments
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for complex system-level debug across pre
  9silicon, bring-up, validation, and production, driving effective triage, root-cause analysis, and timely issue closure
• Mentor and develop engineers through coaching, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing; foster a culture of ownership, high quality, and continuous learning within a small team
• Collaborate closely with design, DV, firmware, driver, diagnostics, emulation, and tools teams to align on requirements, interfaces, schedules, and efficient debug workflows
• Support customer platform issues in partnership with customer support teams, including issue reproduction, analysis, and development of fixes or workarounds
• Lead and set the technical direction as the CG
  9VDI technical leader across business units, owning strategy, standards, and alignment on feature readiness, debug approaches, and validation quality, while driving cross
  9team virtualization innovation through best
  9practice leadership, technical mentorship, and standardization0improving efficiency and effectiveness via automation, infrastructure enhancements, dashboards, and methodological advancements

Skills and Experience

• Recent, prior years of experience in SOC industry, including experience as a technical team lead

• Programming and scripting skills (e.g., C/C++, Python), with a proven record of architecting and scaling validation automation and tooling
• Proven technical authority leading complex, cross
  9functional initiatives and teams, with end
  9to
  9end ownership of technical strategy, execution, and delivery risk
• Deep system expertise driving ASIC-, board-, and platform-level debug, owning structured triage and root0cause analysis across power, clocking, sequencing, and system optimization
• Advanced hands-on proficiency with lab instrumentation (e.g., protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes) to resolve critical, system-level issues
• Strong command of PC architectures and virtualization concepts, with working knowledge of high
  9speed interfaces and system integration tradeoffs
• Exceptional technical communication and influence skills, able to drive alignment and decisions across senior engineering, leadership, and partner organizations
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior and junior engineers, raise technical standards, and resolve complex cross
  9team challenges
• Highly self-directed and accountable, setting technical direction and driving high
  9impact outcomes while enabling teams to execute at scale

Academic Credentials:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)

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