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Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuityand a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’lldiscover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges-striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.Together, we advance your career.\n The Role:\nAs a member of the Discrete GPU Platform Firmware Operations group you will participate in many aspects of the end to end firmware architecture life cycle. Driving enablement of platform centric features across wide range of AMD products focusing on development of embedded firmware and graphics / multimedia drivers.\nKey Responsibilities:\nBe the firmware representative for the respective SOC program in AMD cross-organizational meetings\nBe looked at as the firmware Point of Contact (PoC) and responsible for driving technical discussions within the broad domain of firmware groups\nResponsible for driving & coordinating debug of critical severity firmware centric defects/issues\nFirmware PoC for engagements with Kicker SKUs and engagement with Customer Engineering teams\nParticipate in reviewing requests to add new requirements after program plan exit phase\nPreferred Experience:\nDemonstrated experience across software, firmware, and hardware development lifecycles, from architecture and design through validation and product delivery.\nStrong technical leadership and architectural expertise in software, firmware, System-on-Chip (SoC), and Intellectual Property (IP) design.\nDeep understanding of embedded systems, platform architecture, and complex system integration.\nExperience defining and implementing secure platform architectures with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.\nStrong knowledge of power management, memory architecture, subsystem optimization, and performance tuning.\nProficiency with low-level hardware interfaces, communication protocols, and firmware-hardware interactions.\nExperience with virtualization technologies, including SR-IOV and related resource partitioning and isolation frameworks.\nProven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives, drive issue resolution, and influence architecture decisions across large engineering organizations.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nBachelor’sor Master’sdegree in Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.\nLOCATION:\nMarkham, ON\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD 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.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nThe Role:\nAs a member of the Discrete GPU Platform Firmware Operations group you will participate in many aspects of the end to end firmware architecture life cycle. 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