System Design Engineer - TX, Austin-MET, United States
Originally posted 22 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for Product Engineering program technical planning for AMD microprocessors, serving as a technical contact across design, platform validation, and product engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with design, validation, and architecture teams for content coverage, test plan development, validation, and debugging. - Develop test program infrastructure incorporating Best-Known methods. - Solve sophisticated, novel, and non-recurring problems, initiating changes to existing processes and leading implementation. - Identify and plan product improvement validation activities to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and resolve quality issues. - Provide technical supervision and mentoring to junior engineers while driving technical decisions independently.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or comparable disciplines. - Experience with accountability for results across cross-engineering project areas. - Ability to drive technical decisions independently with accountability for reliability and completeness of project results.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience in post-silicon validation, server/system validation, platform validation, or silicon bring-up. - Experience developing validation strategies, coverage plans, test plans, risk assessments, and milestone exit criteria for complex server or SoC products. - Experience with debug techniques, methodologies, and computer architecture knowledge. - Experience with large-scale system validation or server-farm environments. - Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Ruby, or shell script. - Proficiency in Linux, Unix, or Windows OS, along with statistical analysis experience.
Skills: post-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, debug, server validation, test plan
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 44-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
414
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Median days open
44 d
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Median salary
$166k
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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 (414 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 55 | 414 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 143 | 2256 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 41 d | 44 d (−3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $166k |
Skills observed across this category: post-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, debug, server validation, test plan
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 54 open roles · median 48 d
- Qualcomm · 38 open roles · median 28 d
- Micron Technology · 37 open roles · median 44 d
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 23 d
- Microchip Technology · 22 open roles · median 73 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 126 d
How we counted: 414 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 62 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.