Lead System Development Engineer

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Lead System Development Engineer

THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for a Lead System Development Engineer to join a team enabling AI inference on AMD's Versal AI Edge SoC platforms. You will work across the full vertical stack — collaborating with embedded Linux, AI runtime, hardware, and platform teams to integrate, validate, and deliver AI solutions on AMD's latest AI Edge hardware. The role spans System design, board bring-up, BSP integration, AI runtime enablement, System characterization, and application pipeline development, with a strong focus on system-level quality and customer readiness

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate operates at the hardware-software boundary — someone who can design and implement FPGA/SoC subsystems, profile and characterize hardware designs, and debug issues that span RTL, firmware, and software layers. You are equally comfortable in a design tool analyzing timing or resource utilization as you are reading a device driver or inference runtime log. You take ownership of complex, cross-layer problems and drive them to resolution independently.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, implement, and verify FPGA/SoC subsystems for AI edge platforms, including hardware accelerator integration, IP configuration, and design bring-up

• Profile and characterize hardware designs — timing closure, resource utilization, power analysis, and thermal behavior — and drive identified issues to resolution

• Debug design-specific hardware issues using in-system debug tools (logic analyzers, hardware monitors, JTAG) and correlate findings across RTL, firmware, and software layers

• Lead platforms bring-up activities for new AI edge SoC hardware, including boot flow validation, storage subsystem integration, and peripheral initialization
• Integrate and validate AI inference runtimes and hardware accelerator stacks on embedded SoC targets, debug performance, correctness, and model deployment issues end-to-end

• Support deep learning model compilation, quantization, and optimization workflows targeting embedded AI accelerators (NPU/DPU/spatial compute engines)
• Develop and maintain Yocto-based embedded Linux — recipes, layers, rootfs configuration, and kernel/driver integration
• Write tooling and automation to support hardware validation, device programming workflows, and CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with hardware and silicon teams on system stability, power characterization, and platform validation
• Contribute to technical documentation, release notes, and customer-facing enablement content

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Hands-on FPGA/SoC design experience: RTL integration, IP configuration
• Experience with FPGA design tools (Vivado or equivalent) for implementation, resource analysis, power estimation, and in-system debug
• Proficiency with hardware profiling and characterization: performance benchmarking, power/thermal analysis, and design-specific bottleneck identification

• Proficiency with low-level hardware debug tools: JTAG, in-system logic analyzers, hardware monitors, signal analyzers
• Strong C/C++ development skills with emphasis on embedded and systems-level code quality
• Experience with embedded NPU, DPU, or spatial/dataflow AI accelerators — integration, debugging, and performance tuning
• Hands-on experience deploying AI inference frameworks on edge or embedded hardware — ONNX Runtime, TensorFlow Lite, TensorRT, or equivalent vendor-specific runtimes

• Hands-on Yocto/Open Embedded and embedded Linux experience: BSP bring-up (bootloaders, device trees, kernel drivers), recipe authoring, layer customization, and rootfs configuration
• Working knowledge of hardware acceleration concepts: DMA, memory-mapped I/O, PCIe, interrupt handling, shared memory buffers
• Experience with GStreamer or comparable multimedia/dataflow pipeline frameworks for hardware-accelerated workloads is a plus

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