Senior Software Automation Engineer

Salary: £30,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Passion for building robust, scalable software systems, with an interest in developer productivity and infrastructure at scale
• Systems-engineering mindset, with a focus on platform reliability and turnaround time
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working across sites and time zones
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills; pragmatic approach to tradeoffs and willingness to learn new tools
• Solid software engineering experience building automation, tooling, or infrastructure, with strong proficiency in Python and shell scripting
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining software across Linux and Windows environments
• Experience designing or operating regression or CI systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent, and job schedulers such as LSF or Slurm
• Experience designing databases and services for managing large volumes of assets, releases, and results, and building reports or dashboards
• Experience with QEMU or similar software emulation or virtualization platforms for running and scaling test workloads
• Comfort operating compute and storage resources at scale and optimizing throughput, reliability, and turnaround time
• Working knowledge of Git, build systems, and general DevOps or release-engineering practices
• Familiarity with running workloads on hardware emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu, Cadence Palladium, or Siemens Veloce is a plus
• Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic or Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain continuous integration and regression environments that run large-scale test suites owned by validation, design, and other teams across Linux and Windows platforms
• Design and maintain a scalable execution engine that uses machine and storage resources efficiently
• Design and maintain databases for managing assets, releases, and results
• Integrate and support hardware emulation platforms as execution targets within the automation flow
• Improve our validation automation ecosystem and infrastructure
• Influence and align other tools teams around common CI and regression methodologies
• Collaborate with tools teams, architects, and the Design and Verification team to support quality releases and clear presentation of complex results

Technologies:

• AI
• DevOps
• Embedded
• Flow
• Git
• GitLab
• Hardware
• Support
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Python
• QEMU
• Windows

More:

Were AMD, where we believe technology can help solve important challenges, advance healthcare and scientific discovery, and power AI and technologies people rely on every day. Were seeking a Software Engineer for our automation infrastructure team in Cambridge, United Kingdom, in a hybrid role. This is a software and infrastructure position focused on the framework, execution engine, CI pipelines, scheduling, and reporting that run tests at scale—not hardware design or writing the tests. Our platform supports teams qualifying products across server, data center, client, and embedded markets. Benefits are offered; details are available in AMDs benefits overview. We are an equal opportunity, inclusive employer and encourage applications from qualified candidates. We accommodate applicants needs as required by applicable laws throughout recruitment and selection. We may use artificial intelligence to help screen, assess, or select applicants; our Responsible AI Policy is available on our website. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

last updated 40 week of 2026