staff software engineering Hardware Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Feb 16, 2026

About this role

AMD is hiring a staff-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Penang, Malaysia. The posting calls out experience with Ruby, Frontend Development, Embedded Systems.

Role
Hardware Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Location
Penang, Malaysia
Department
Engineering
Posted
Feb 16, 2026

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Job description

from AMD careers


WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  




THE ROLE: 

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the design of new and existing features for AMD’s IP (involving System reset and boot, clocking, advanced power management as well as some sub-IP controllers), resulting in no bugs in the final design.

It is a must that the candidate has one or more of the following experience/knowledge, such as X86/ARM architecture, AMBA(AXI/AHB/APB) bus, USB(4.0/3.0/2.0/1.1; HSIC/host/device/OTG) system, NAND Flash host controller/BCH/double-data-rate interface, PCI-E/PCI bus, low power design, clock generation and control, SD/eMMC host controller, SATA/SAS, Legacy IPs (SPI/SMBUS/ACPI/eSPI/GPIO), General connectivity IPs (I2C/I3C/UART), Ethernet, JTAG, SoC IP integration, etc.

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