Product Application Engineer- BIOS and Systems Engineer

AMD is looking for an experienced individual to take-up the exciting role of applications engineer in the growing Embedded Business Unit and work on bleeding-edge technology. You will be responsible for scoping, hands-on debugging and resolving multi-disciplinary customer issues across different market segments and products. You will work closely with software development teams to understand the software design, architecture, use-cases and implementation and then enable the customers in applications of this software into their differentiated innovative products. You will also help in development of critical customer features, authoring and presenting application notes and technical training for AMD field and customer teams. You will be a hands-on specialist in analyzing and optimizing performance, and in developing software and PoCs

Roles & Responsibilities

• Storage solutions development, platform tuning, optimization, and competitive benchmarking • Hands-on coding/debugging and resolution of customer issues, analysis and enablement of storage customer use-cases • Achieve maximum platform/silicon entitlement in customer products through power and performance, driver optimization. • Author applications notes and present training sessions to enable field teams, customers and partners. • Bring-up customer boards with Linux kernel and device drivers working as reference boards

Requirements

• Engineering degree in CS/EE with 15+ years of relevant experience. • Strong experience with storage technologies, frameworks, and libraries – RAID, Software Defined Storage, iSCSI SPDK, CEPH, ZFS, Deduplication, compression, Opensource Storage Acceleration libraries • Good knowledge of storage benchmarking like FIO, IOMeter, SPEC-SFS • System design and architecture of storage products • Strong experience in performance analysis and optimization • Appropriate experience in embedded software development in Linux, working on user and kernel mode device drivers, bootloaders, kernel configuration and tuning, power and performance management etc. • Appropriate work experience in highspeed IO driver development and debugging like PCIe, USB, SATA, NVMe and other IO protocols like I2C, SPI etc. • Well versed in opensource management, generation and up streaming patches, different Linux kernels and distros, Linux runtime and build infrastructure. • Hands-on knowledge of embedded software debugging techniques both from the hardware and software/OS perspective. • Good knowledge of CPU system architecture and HW platforms based on x86 processors. • Experience working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment and ability to travel as needed • Experience in customer facing role (application engineering) will be a big plus. • Strong written and verbal communication skills