Virtual Software Modeling Engineer

AMD is a leading company focused on building innovative products that enhance computing experiences across various domains. They are seeking a Virtual Software Modeling Engineer to develop high-performance models for AMD’s next-generation SoCs, enabling pre-silicon development and enhancing simulation infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-performance C++ functional models of AMD SoCs and platforms
• Work closely with architecture teams to understand and model new designs
• Improve functionality, stability, and performance of existing models
• Develop tests to verify the functionality of models
• Work with internal and external customers to help debug problems by running their workloads on the models
• Develop new, innovative enhancements to the simulation framework and advanced debug features
• Highly leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency in all job functions

Requirements:

• Develop high-performance C++ functional models of AMD SoCs and platforms
• Work closely with architecture teams to understand and model new designs
• Improve functionality, stability, and performance of existing models
• Develop tests to verify the functionality of models
• Work with internal and external customers to help debug problems by running their workloads on the models
• Develop new, innovative enhancements to the simulation framework and advanced debug features
• Highly leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency in all job functions
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Experience developing high-performance systems and application software in C/C++ for Windows and/or Linux environments
• 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
• Hardware system architecture and subsystem interface protocols
• x86, ARM or GPU architecture, drivers, and applications
• Linux and/or Windows kernel debugging
• Functional modeling, architecture simulation, or hypervisor development
• QEMU, VirtualBox, Virtualizer, GEM5, or SIMICS