LeadSoftware System Design Eng - Audio Framework

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Lead SOFTWARE SYSTEM DESIGN ENGINEER

The Role

The right engineer will drive the success of power IP (Intellectual Property) and features in AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) products through leadership & coordination, resolution of technical dependencies, and achievement of schedule commits. This is a high-visibility and widely multi-functional role, spanning pre-silicon architecture to post-silicon implementation & product delivery.  

The Person

Your curiosity will drive your learning and innovation to improve how we as a group, and an organization, can get better every day. Your peers will provide you a results-oriented and encouraging environment for your career growth, fueling your opportunity to be a part of Delighting Our Customers.  

Key Responsibilities

• Own the multi-functional Power Feature Enablement team for new AMD APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) products
• Work across engineering teams and subject areas spanning silicon, firmware, hardware, and software
• Coordinate debug of issues and drive them to closure
• Pull together meetings, set up clear agendas and follow up on action items
• Deliver regular progress updates toward program goals
• Make tough decisions such as priority calls based on partial or incomplete data  
• Proactively drive continuous improvement for post-silicon power and performance activities
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
  
  
  

• Product development or systems engineering background with hardware platforms and their software & firmware ecosystems
• Excellent verbal communication and written, presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, analytical, planning, and technical leadership skills
• Proven record of accomplishment in delivering large multi-functional product solutions
• Experience working in a fast-paced matrixed technical organization and multi-site environment 
• Product or program management
• Engineer with 10+ years of experience in embedded Linux driver/kernel development specifically in the area of Audio
• Strong C/C++ development skills with a good understanding of object-oriented design
• Good understanding of Linux fundamentals and audio fundamentals
• Experience with ALSA ASoC driver development
• Experience with audio transmission protocols like I2S/TDM, audio DAC/ADC
• Experience with audio DSP firmware development
• Experience working with one or more DSP IPs (TI, Cadence, ADI, etc...)
• System knowledge, System Debugging, firmware debugging using JTAG
• Experience with multi-core DSP architecture and inter-processor communication
• Experience with one or more audio post processing frameworks such as Audio Weaver Engine, Xtensa Audio Framework
• Experience with ALSA user lib, plugins, configurations, and parameters
• Experience of understanding schematics and using hardware equipment such as logic analyzer, oscilloscope
  
  
  

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering or equivalent