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:
This is an engineering management position responsible for a product engineering team. Manages and controls activities in multi-functional areas of the team.

THE PERSON: In this role, you will ensure overall yield attainment and improvement, process compliance and uniformity, and test coverage of AMD system products from new product introduction through volume manufacturing by analyzing, improving processes, identifying outliers, designing, developing, and modifying product specific test hardware, software and diagnostics. Team correlates the test solution to lab/manufacturing/customer platforms to validate product design, fabrication process, packaging technology, and manufacturing robustness to product specifications. Acts as liaison with internal customers/partners and vendors.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Responsibility for cost and yield attainment and improvement
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and the process by which to meet those goals.
• Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.
• Communicate status to management or executive staff.
• Influences technical decisions that have an impact on final product.
• Champions important technical decisions.
• Management reviews work to measure meeting of objectives.
• Provides direct supervision to professional individual contributors and/or skilled support individual contributors (i.e. technicians, support personnel).
• Provides direction to individual contributors according to established policies and management guidance.
• Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Runs weekly 1:1 with individual contributors providing feedback and coaching.
• Sets clear team goals and responsibilities.
• Acts as advisor to a unit or sub-units and may become actively involved as required to meet schedules and resolve problems.
• Identifies talent gaps, recruiting diverse candidates internally and externally.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with other departments.
• Collaborate on or assume responsibility for a specific project, or a definable portion of a larger project or process.
• Other duties as necessary.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience driving process, yield, and quality

• 7 years of experience in product development, preferably in semiconductors.

• 2 years of experience managing projects.

• 5 years of experience managing a team.

• 3 years of experience with developing tests, patterns/vectors, timing, and diagnostics on Automated Test Equipment

• Experience with a scripting language (Perl, Ruby, shell script, or similar).
• Experience in XP, AGILE, Scrum, or Kanban as Scrum Master or Product Owner.
• Statistical analysis experience to determine population mean and outliers.
• Pareto analysis experience to drive a debug process.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with geographically distributed product engineering teams.
• Experience presenting to Director level management internally.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Candidates will have a B.S. or M.S. degree plus 5 years of engineering or related experience and 2 years of experience managing a team.

LOCATION: Austin, TX

role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.