Graphics Driver Engineer

AMD's Semi-Custom business unit (SCBU) provide customers a level of flexibility and differentiation that goes beyond standard AMD products, the business unit takes AMD to a new level of customer-centric design by integrating these building blocks with customer-specific IP to create tailor-made solutions using a flexible system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology. It has access to leading-edge IPs from all of AMD's business units.

AMD's Semi-Custom business unit has its own dedicated system-on-chip engineering team focusing on high-volume, high-value applications across a wide array of markets, including: gaming, set-top boxes, smart TVs, PCs, tablets, servers, high performance computing and infrastructure applications. Sony and Microsoft are SCBU’s customers with the chips in Playstation 4 and XboxOne consoles.

• Design, develop and debug kernel mode driver, display driver and user mode 3D drivers

• Low level programming of hardware devices (initialize hardware, allocate hardware resource, handle interrupt, read/write memory/register, etc)

• Understand new display h/w features, design driver support, create proof of concept demos

• Work independently on the software design, fix coding bugs

• Work with different functional teams to triage, analyze and debug cross-domain issues

• Drive customer issue solving and deliver finely tuned answers or fixes in timely manner

• knowledge of display pipeline programming model and industrial standards (HDMI, DP, HDCP, etc) or knowledge of modern 3D rendering pipelines of D3D/OpenGL

• The candidate must have good understanding of data structures, design patterns, C/C++ language features and good coding style.

• The candidate must be self-motivated and have strong interest to self-learn new technologies in a fast paced group

• The candidate must have strong analytical skill, problem solving skill and communication skill.

• Compute science degree or other degrees with relevant technical discipline