Hiring: Staff Validation Technologist for EPYC and AMD Instinct Company: AMD Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:02:29 Target Skills & Keywords : Clean Architecture, HBase, Make, SOC About the job Required Skills: •We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Staff Systems Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The AMD EPYC and Instinct team validation team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development. The •Validation Architect or Strategist – At‑Scale Farm •is the technical owner of end‑to‑end validation strategy, architecture, and execution at scale of AMD Servers. This role defines how validation is architected, automated, and executed across distributed farm environments, ensuring optimal •coverage, efficiency, and product quality outcomes •THE PERSON: •As a Validation Architect or Strategist – At‑Scale Farm, you will drive scalable and automated validation solutions. In this high-visibility role, your systems validation and architecture expertise will be key to uncovering critical issues early and ensuring a high-quality, customer-ready experience for AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct platforms. •KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: •A core responsibility of this role is to design and continuously evolve validation coverage strategy, ensuring that validation is not just executing tests, but systematically maximizing bug discovery, minimizing customer escapes, and aligning validation with real-world customer usage. •Drive technical innovation to improve AMD’s capabilities across validation, including content, tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives •Assess customer escapes and translate them into structured validation test plans that systematically close coverage gaps, prevent recurrence. •Evaluate customer impact of gaps and mitigate risks prior to production •Lead collaborative approach with multiple teams across AMD to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time •Debug issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs •PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: •A substantial amount of years of exposure in pre-silicon + post-silicon validation exposure including system-level validation Compensation: •$163,200 •$244,800 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!