Staff/Principal Automative Use Cases Validation Engineer
AMD · Posted Oct 9
High-performance processors, graphics cards, data center solutions, and AI accelerators
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About the role
AMD's PAVS team works on Automotive Virtualization on AMD platforms, enabling next generation automotive compute platforms across the hypervisor, OS domains, drivers, and system level performance. The role leads validation strategies and end to end use case validation covering Xen based virtualization, multi OS domains (Android, Yocto, FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS), IVI features, graphics, and Ryzen AI workloads. The engineer will drive boot flow, virtio, compositor/display, debug and recovery, security, and automation validation while collaborating with firmware, kernel, virtualization, graphics, and AI teams.
What you will do
- Validate Xen based virtualized platforms across Android, Yocto, FreeRTOS.
- Optimize and validate boot flows across firmware → hypervisor → OS.
- Validate virtio pipelines and device passthrough.
- Validate compositor, display, GPU, and projection workflows.
- Lead system-level debug, performance tuning, mixed criticality validation.
- Support Secure Boot, safety flows, and cybersecurity validation.
- Collaborate with firmware, kernel, virtualization, graphics, and AI teams.
- Drive automating features
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Virtualization (Xen): Multi VM Validation (Android/Yocto/FreeRTOS), virtio (camera/audio/media/GPU/NPU), passthrough (UART/I2C/SPI), AVIC, QoS.
- Boot Optimization testing with core boot for S3 & S5
- OS Domains: Validation of Safe Linux, SDV AAOS, Yocto, and FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS including graphics workflows, automotive use cases, and IVI related feature validation.
- FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS: Control-domain validation, CRC, safe rendering, crash fallback, mixed criticality flows.
- Graphics/Display: AMD compositor (superframes, gestures, clone, virtual outputs), projection (Android Auto, CarPlay).
- Debug/Recovery: Full stack debug using Unified Debugger, system recovery validation.
- Cloud & AI: VAS on AWS/Google Cloud, V710; Ryzen AI workloads
- Audio: HiFi5 pipelines, ACP validation
- Security: Secure Boot to DomU, validation
Preferred qualifications
- Strong in C/C++, Python, Shell automation.
- Deep experience with Linux kernel, hypervisors, drivers, bootloaders, SoC power states.
- Hands-on with Xen, multi VM orchestration, and automotive compute platforms.
- Test Automation: Development and automate test suites for virtualization, boot flows, OS domains, and IVI features.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About AMD
AMD is a global semiconductor company that designs high-performance central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and adaptive processors for data centers, personal computers, gaming consoles, and embedded systems. The company specializes in advanced computing solutions and AI accelerators, positioning itself as a major leader in modern high-performance and artificial intelligence hardware. Through strategic developments and acquisitions, AMD continues to expand its ecosystem across cloud infrastructure, enterprise computing, and physical AI.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 31000 employees
- Founded
- 1969-05-01
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2007-11-16Post Ipo
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