Lead Board Hardware Debug Engineer – Datacenter & AI Platforms
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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 complex board-level debug for high-performance Datacenter GPU platforms
- Drive hardware validation from prototype bring-up through production
- Analyze and optimize board signaling and system-level design for next-generation GPU-based solutions
- Work at the intersection of cutting-edge GPU solutions, CPUs, memory, networking, and power delivery
- Lead system-level integration and 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 about DEBUG and testing: Enjoys chasing down elusive failures and intermittent issues
- Strong in PCB-level signal integrity: Understands high-speed serial links, impedance, terminations, and layout tradeoffs
- A problem 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:
- Lead board- and system-level DEBUG of Datacenter GPU platforms (bring-up, stability, performance, interoperability)
- Develop and execute functional test plans for new boards and system configurations
- Perform and guide Board Signal Integrity validation: 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 debug across silicon design, firmware, BIOS, board design, and manufacturing
- Collaborate closely with hardware design, layout, SI/PI, firmware, BIOS, and system engineering teams to resolve issues
- Provide design-for-test and design-for-debug feedback for future board and system designs
- Document debug findings, create reproducible test cases, and drive corrective actions into design and process
- Support factory, customer, and field escalations requiring deep hardware debug expertise
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Proven experience in Datacenter board design and/or Board Validation for server, accelerator, or networking products
- Strong background in system-level hardware validation (bring-up, qualification, reliability, and margin verification)
- Hands-on debug methodologies: fault isolation, boundary scan, probing, rework, A/B comparison.
- Solid understanding of signal integrity concepts and tools (e.g., high-speed SerDes, DDR, PCIE channel analysis)
- Working knowledge of computer and I/O protocols, such as PCIe, CXL, DDRx, NVLink, Ethernet, I2C/SMBus, SPI, etc.
- Strong grasp of system architecture: CPU/GPU/memory hierarchy, power sequencing, reset schemes, clocking architectures
- Comfortable with lab equipment: high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, BERTs, VNAs/TDRs
- Willing and comfortable traveling to 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
Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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 complex board-level debug for high-performance Datacenter GPU platforms
- Drive hardware validation from prototype bring-up through production
- Analyze and optimize board signaling and system-level design for next-generation GPU-based solutions
- Work at the intersection of cutting-edge GPU solutions, CPUs, memory, networking, and power delivery
- Lead system-level integration and 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 about DEBUG and testing: Enjoys chasing down elusive failures and intermittent issues
- Strong in PCB-level signal integrity: Understands high-speed serial links, impedance, terminations, and layout tradeoffs
- A problem 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:
- Lead board- and system-level DEBUG of Datacenter GPU platforms (bring-up, stability, performance, interoperability)
- Develop and execute functional test plans for new boards and system configurations
- Perform and guide Board Signal Integrity validation: 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 debug across silicon design, firmware, BIOS, board design, and manufacturing
- Collaborate closely with hardware design, layout, SI/PI, firmware, BIOS, and system engineering teams to resolve issues
- Provide design-for-test and design-for-debug feedback for future board and system designs
- Document debug findings, create reproducible test cases, and drive corrective actions into design and process
- Support factory, customer, and field escalations requiring deep hardware debug expertise
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Proven experience in Datacenter board design and/or Board Validation for server, accelerator, or networking products
- Strong background in system-level hardware validation (bring-up, qualification, reliability, and margin verification)
- Hands-on debug methodologies: fault isolation, boundary scan, probing, rework, A/B comparison.
- Solid understanding of signal integrity concepts and tools (e.g., high-speed SerDes, DDR, PCIE channel analysis)
- Working knowledge of computer and I/O protocols, such as PCIe, CXL, DDRx, NVLink, Ethernet, I2C/SMBus, SPI, etc.
- Strong grasp of system architecture: CPU/GPU/memory hierarchy, power sequencing, reset schemes, clocking architectures
- Comfortable with lab equipment: high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, BERTs, VNAs/TDRs
- Willing and comfortable traveling to 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
Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.