Originally posted 8 May 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 6 November 2026.
About the role
AMD is hiring a Sr. Systems Design Engineer to design semiconductor components, software, products, and systems while identifying design bugs and firmware dependencies.
What you'll do
- Define processes for technical platforms, system specifications, input/output, and parameters for hardware and software compatibility.
- Design frameworks, system interfaces, and business application prototypes while identifying and resolving system design weaknesses.
- Contribute to the framework architecture used across multiple products and systems.
- Evaluate the complete design flow from high-level designs to synthesis, place and route, timing, and power use.
- Apply engineering principles and design tools to the development and testing of processors, circuit boards, and chips.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field.
- One (1) year of experience in the job offered or a closely related verification or design engineering role (may be gained through graduate-level coursework, research, or internship experience).
- Experience performing hardware and software verification and functional verification of microprocessors.
- Experience with logic and circuit design, as well as SoC, GPU, or CPU architecture.
- Experience with C, C++, or Python programming.
- Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL.
- Experience with automation and debug to establish orchestration and regression flows, design flows for chip verification, and performance analysis of hardware subsystems and software workloads.
Skills: Hardware and software verification, C, C++, or Python, Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL, Unix or Linux environments, Functional verification of microprocessors, Firmware development and emulation testing, SoC or CPU architecture, Data structures or multi-threading, Software debugging
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This role has been open 181 days — well above the 65-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
92
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Median days open
65 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$203k
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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 (92 roles · 24 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 26 | 92 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 402 | 6534 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 77 d | 65 d (+12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $203k |
Skills observed across this category: Hardware and software verification, C, C++, or Python, Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL, Unix or Linux environments, Functional verification of microprocessors, Firmware development and emulation testing
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 24 open roles · median 77 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 58 d
- NVIDIA · 15 open roles · median 106 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 64 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 44 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 16 d
How we counted: 92 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 24 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 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.