Lead Pre-Silicon Verification & Post-Silicon Validation Architect

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Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career. SERVER PLATFORM FIRMWARE VALIDATION ARCHITECT THE ROLE: Join our validation architecture team as a Lead Test Architect focused on defining verification methodologies, validation strategies, and automation-ready test frameworks for next-generation server and accelerator platforms. You will partner with SoC, platform, and validation architects to develop coverage models, identify validation gaps, and build scalable test content that executes across both pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.

This role emphasizes validation architecture, coverage development, root-cause analysis, and automated verification infrastructure for AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct accelerators used in enterprise and data center markets. We welcome candidates with backgrounds in firmware validation, platform validation, SoC validation, silicon validation, or pre-silicon verification who are passionate about improving product quality through innovative validation methodologies.

AI-first engineering is a core expectation for this role. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to effectively leverage generative AI, engineering copilots, automation agents, and data-driven tools to improve productivity, accelerate validation, enhance quality, and drive innovation across the firmware verification lifecycle THE PERSON: You are a pragmatic problem solver who enjoys digging into firmware and platform behavior, building repeatable tests, and collaborating to close test gaps and bugs fast.

You think in terms of reproducible results and automation, take pride in clear triage artifacts, and communicate effectively with architects, validation engineers, and software teams. You are willing to challenge the status quo to find smarter, higher leverage ways to validate firmware and systems features (including exploring AI assisted tooling and test generation). KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Partner with firmware architects and validation teams to define platform level firmware test strategies and coverage goals.

Evaluate per feature verification criteria and review previous generation test plans to scope, define and develop test cases for next gen products that can run on pre-silicon (SIMICs like simulation models) or post-silicon environments Implement end-to-end test flows that validate firmware functionality across boot and runtime, producing repeatable artifacts (logs, register dumps, SOL captures) for effective triage and defect closure Help generate requirements to enhance simulation platforms so much of post silicon level tests can be exercised on pre-silicon environments Execute tests, debug failures, and collaborate with firmware developers to drive timely defect resolution Contribute to test strategy and coverage analysis, with emphasis on system-level firmware / hardware interactions and cross-domain dependencies.

Enhance test infrastructure to improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and optimize reporting/triage workflows. Typical effort split: ~80% test design & development, ~20% execution & troubleshooting. PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, LLM-based coding assistants, automated test-generation tools, or similar technologies.

Strong understanding of how generative AI can be applied to software development, test automation, debug analysis, and engineering productivity. Experience developing AI-assisted automation workflows, agent-based systems, or data-driven validation frameworks is highly desirable. Relevant experience in firmware/soft