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Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

We are seeking a Senior Board Hardware Debug Engineer to join our Datacenter & AI Board Validation team. In this role you will:

- Own complexboard-level debugfor high-performanceDatacenter GPUplatforms
- Drivehardware validationfrom prototype bring-up through production
- Analyze and optimizeboard signalingandsystem-level designfor next-generation GPU-based solutions
- Work at the intersection ofcutting-edge GPU solutions, CPUs, memory, networking, and power delivery
- Leadsystem-level integrationand debug across multi-board, multi-GPU datacenter platforms

You will be a key technical leader ensuring our boards and systems meet performance, reliability, and quality targets in demanding Datacenter and AI environments.

THE PERSON:

We are looking for someone who is:

- Hands-on: Comfortable in the lab with scopes, analyzers, probes, and soldering tools
- Deeply passionate aboutDEBUG and testing: Enjoys chasing down elusive failures and intermittent issues
- Strong inPCB-level signal integrity: Understands high-speed serial links, impedance, terminations, and layout tradeoffs
- Aproblem solver: Able to isolate issues systematically across silicon,



firmware, board, and system domains
- Creative and resourceful: Able to design experiments, work around incomplete specs, and find data-driven solutions

You thrive in ambiguity, enjoy complex technical challenges, and take pride in owning issues to closure.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Leadboard- and system-level DEBUGof Datacenter GPU platforms (bring-up, stability, performance, interoperability)
- Develop and execute functional test plansfor recent boards and system configurations
- Perform and guideBoard Signal Integrityvalidation: eye diagrams, jitter analysis, margins, channel characterization
- Lead technical validation efforts across teams, driving validation priorities and test coverage for critical features
- Champion root-cause analysis and cross-functional debugacross silicon design, firmware, BIOS, board design, and manufacturing
- Collaborate closely withhardware design, layout, SI/PI, firmware, BIOS, and system engineeringteams to resolve issues
- Providedesign-for-test and design-for-debugfeedback for future board and system designs
- Document debug findings, createreproducible test cases, and drivecorrective actionsinto design and process
- Supportfactory, customer, and fieldescalations requiring deep hardware debug expertise

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:





- Proven experience inDatacenter board designand/orBoard Validationfor server, accelerator, or networking products
- Strong background insystem-level hardware validation(bring-up, qualification, reliability, and margin verification)
- Hands-ondebug methodologies: fault isolation, boundary scan, probing, rework, A/B comparison.
- Solid understanding ofsignal integrityconcepts and tools (e.g., high-speed SerDes, DDR, PCIE channel analysis)
- Working knowledge ofcomputer and I/O protocols, such as PCIe, CXL, DDRx, NVLink, Ethernet, I2C/SMBus, SPI, etc.
- Strong grasp ofsystem architecture: CPU/GPU/memory hierarchy, power sequencing, reset schemes, clocking architectures
- Comfortable withlab equipment: high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, BERTs, VNAs/TDRs
- Willing andcomfortable travelingto support engineering builds, factory ramps, and key debug events (domestic and international, as needed)
- Self-directed and self-motivated: able to drive tasks with minimal supervision and manage multiple debug threads in parallel

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related field.

LOCATION:

Markham, Ontario, Canada

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