Lead Server Systems Debug Engineer - TX, Austin_Research Park, United States
Originally posted 28 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
What you'll do
- Drive technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across debug and validation.
- Debug issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs.
- Pursue solutions by working with multiple teams, and track test execution to ensure all features are validated and optimized on time.
- Engage in software, hardware, and system modeling frameworks.
- Lead collaborative approaches with multiple teams.
What you'll need
- Experience in debug techniques and methodologies.
- Extensive experience with board/platform-level debug, including delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization.
- Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy.
- Extensive experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes.
- Programming/scripting skills in one or more of C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python.
- Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and attention to details.
Nice to have
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
Skills: server systems debug, board/platform-level debug, system architecture, protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes
This role has been open 82 days — well above the 58-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
103
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$208k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (103 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 103 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 406 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 58 d | 58 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $208k |
Skills observed across this category: server systems debug, board/platform-level debug, system architecture, protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 28 open roles · median 58 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 77 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 45 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 25 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 17 d
How we counted: 103 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.