Virtual Software Modeling Engineer

<strong>THE ROLE:</strong><br/><br/>Bring AMD's leading-edge SoCs to life in a virtual environment! Develop Fast Platform Models that simulate software-visible behavior of AMD's next-generation designs. Enable pre-silicon development of firmware, system, driver and application software. Support emulation acceleration, performance, and power modeling. Enhance our simulation infrastructure and develop innovative, new debug features.<br/><br/>The Virtual Software Modeling Engineer will have broad scope and work with multiple teams to gather SoC and IP component specifications, plan development to meet milestones, build models, and support internal and external stakeholders. You will be a team player on a highly capable and supportive team, working on a project critical to the company's success. This is a highly visible and impactful role with excellent growth opportunity.<br/><br/><strong>THE PERSON:</strong><br/><br/>You should be adept at problem-solving and thrive on developing efficient solutions to complex problems. You can quickly grasp new concepts and technologies, are innovative and always looking for ways to improve the status quo. You are a great teammate, willing to go the extra mile to ensure project success.<br/><br/><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><br/><ul><li>Develop high-performance C++ functional models of AMD SoCs and platforms.</li><li>Work closely with architecture teams to understand and model new designs.</li><li>Improve functionality, stability, and performance of existing models.</li><li>Develop tests to verify the functionality of models.</li><li>Work with internal and external customers to help debug problems by running their workloads on the models.</li><li>Develop new, innovative enhancements to the simulation framework and advanced debug features.</li><li>Highly leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency in all job functions. </li></ul><br/><br/><strong>PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:</strong><br/><ul><li>Experience developing high-performance systems and application software in C/C++ for Windows and/or Linux environments.</li><li>Multi-threaded programming and synchronization primitives (e.g., mutexes, atomics, condition variables, lock-free structures), including common pitfalls such as deadlocks, livelocks, priority inversion, and false sharing.</li><li>Hardware system architecture and subsystem interface protocols.</li><li>x86, ARM or GPU architecture, drivers, and applications.</li><li>Linux and/or Windows kernel debugging.</li><li>Functional modeling, architecture simulation, or hypervisor development.</li><li>QEMU, VirtualBox, Virtualizer, GEM5, or SIMICS.</li></ul><br/><br/><strong>ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:</strong><br/><ul><li>Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent </li></ul><br/><br/><strong>This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.</strong><br/><br/>#LI-DP1<br/><br/>#LI-HYBRID<br/><br/>Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

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