Senior Systems Design Engineer - TX, Austin-MET, United States
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves driving and improving AMD’s abilities to deliver high-quality technologies to market as a key contributor to product success. As a Senior Systems Design Engineer, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions for product development, definition, and root cause resolution.
What you'll do
- Drive technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across validation, including tool and script development.
- Debug issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs.
- Track test execution to ensure all features are validated and optimized on time.
- Collaborate with technical teams.
- Drive continuous improvement of validation methodology.
What you'll need
- Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering.
- Experience developing validation strategies, coverage plans, test plans, risk assessments, and milestone exit criteria for complex server or SoC products.
- Debug techniques and methodologies.
- Experience with large-scale system validation or server-farm environments.
- Experience with board/platform-level debug.
- Knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy.
- Hands-on understanding of modern server SOC architecture.
- Strong automation/scripting experience.
- Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python).
Nice to have
- Strong hands-on experience in post-silicon validation, server/system validation, platform validation, or silicon bring-up.
Skills: post-silicon validation, server/system validation, platform validation, silicon bring-up, debugging issues
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 41-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
400
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Median days open
41 d
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Median salary
$174k
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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 (400 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 58 | 400 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 151 | 2223 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 41 d | 41 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $174k |
Skills observed across this category: post-silicon validation, server/system validation, platform validation, silicon bring-up, debugging issues
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 57 open roles · median 41 d
- Micron Technology · 39 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 36 open roles · median 28 d
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 119 d
- Microchip Technology · 19 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 400 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 62 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.