Experience
15 - 20 yrs
Job Location
Bengaluru, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Validation Manager
Job Type
Not specified
Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- SoC Enablement/Validation/Debug Activities
- Drive post-silicon IP enablement and functional/electrical validation activities
- Identify and drive compliance activities with internal central teams and external labs
- Ensure appropriate validation coverage across the IPs at various temperature range
- Oversee critical debug and triage towards any Silicon related issues
- SoC Power and Performance Attainment
- Drive the teams for the bounding box attainment and ensuring validation for power/performance across PVT conditions
- Oversee EDC/TDC tuning, CaC validation, and comprehensive power and thermal characterization
- Leadership Team Development
- Build and mentor a high-performing team across the various domains
- Define team goals, priorities, and meet execution plans aligned with program milestones
- Plan headcount and allocate resources effectively
- Collaborate with multi-functional leaders to drive AMD s success
- Risk Management Issue Resolution:
- Identify and mitigate risks related to feature enablement and validation coverage; ensure timely triage and resolution of blocking issues
- Lead triage and resolution of blocking issues in coordination with architecture, validation, and debug teams.
- Stakeholder Communication:
- Provide crisp progress updates to management and stakeholders.
- Maintain dashboards on status and issues for projects and deliverables in Confluence and use Jira/MS Project to track all the engineering work
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Technical background in semiconductor industry with 5 years hands on work in Pre-Silicon activities, 5 years of program management experience and an overall industry experience of 15+ years
- Good understanding of SoC architecture, RTL integration, and platform-level validation functions
- Working experience handling Post-Silicon IP level enablement and validation activities
- Hands-on with debug, triage, and validation procedures for all the interfaces and subsystems
- Good exposure with resource and budget management for the team
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills
- Prior experience managing and leading engineering teams
- Proven project program management experience in dynamic and competitive industry
- Ability to manage complex programs with multiple cross-functional dependencies.
- Proficiency in planning tools (JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, MS Project) and reporting dashboards
- Ability to structure and execute complex analysis, draw insights, and communicate summary findings/recommendations to senior management.
- Ability to network, build relationships, and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization
- Highly organized, able to prioritize, and juggle multiple work streams to tight deadlines
- Flexible working schedule to manage global (Asia and North America) program execution teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering
- Engineering degree with 15+ years of industry experience
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.