Software Infrastructure Engineer

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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THE ROLE:

Be part of the world's leading graphics accelerator and compute processor unit teams developing best in class software infrastructure of diagnostics suites for state-of-the-art AMD products. Our organization is responsible for delivering test patterns used for pre and post silicon verification as well as manufacturing screening. This role is in the team called "Diagnostic Infrastructure" administering, maintaining, and enhancing the software automation foundation for build and execution, supporting various AMD platforms.

THE PERSON:

We are looking for a passionate, creative, team player, and result oriented engineer who is willing to work in a fast-paced leading edge technology environment. 

You hold a degree in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering who is interested administering, enhancing, and supporting development and continuous integration (CI) software and hardware infrastructure. You understand PC/server systems and build environments for Linux and Windows. You are proficient in build tool chains, scripting, and debugging code compile failures. You have system Admin and DevOps software infrastructure experience.  You have experience in supporting operations and development flows. You enjoy solving complex problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead in the administering, maintaining, and enhancing infrastructure systems.
• Identify gaps in efficiency/throughput and provide mid and long-term solutions.
• Contribute to the CI operations team for triage, failure analysis, and system level debug.
• Implement infrastructure features to enable diagnostic development and CI flows to achieve coverage goals.
• Plan and deliver diagnostic infrastructure patches and updates on regular cadence.
• Participate in system bring-ups to enable users on build servers globally.
• Participate in debugging system failures and the process of root cause to resolution.
• Work with AMD infrastructure teams external and internal to the diagnostics group.
• Systems administration of Linux and Windows build servers, both virtual and physical machines.
• Maintain compile tool chains for development and operation environments.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• CI automation tools and configuration management. Buildbot (preferred) or Jenkins.
• System and software admin and development in Engineering or IT industry.
• Server configuration management, build, install, and maintenance experience.
• Linux and Windows admin experience. Preferably Ubuntu and/or RedHat certified.
• Linux and Widows software development compiler toolchain experience.
• Cross-compile GNU tool chain for the ARM processor.
• Experience with SaST and advanced static/security analyzers.  CodeQL is preferred.
• Scripting languages in Python (preferred), Ruby, Perl, bash, shell.

• Database knowledge and experience. Preferred MySQL or PostgreSQL.

• Compile language familiarity to debug failures in C (preferred), Java, or C.
• Familiar with distributed source controls systems. GIT or Github is preferred.
• Familiar with code review tools. Gerrit is preferred.
• Familiar with static analysis tools. Clang preferred.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Desired degrees:  Bachelor or Master of Science
• Preferred field:  Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering

LOCATION:

Austin, TX USA

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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.