Job Description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.

Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE You will join the DPEG Hardware Program Management team and lead complex, cross-functional programs that drive the development and deployment of AMD’s next-generation hardware solutions. In this role, you will serve as a central point of coordination across engineering, product management, sales, manufacturing, and customer teams to ensure successful program execution. You will be responsible for driving schedules, managing risks, tracking dependencies, and providing clear status updates to stakeholders and executive leadership. The role requires balancing technical, business, and customer priorities while enabling efficient decision-making throughout the product lifecycle. Success in this position will have a direct impact on delivering innovative hardware platforms to customers on time and with high quality.

THE PERSON The ideal candidate is a highly organized and results-driven Program Manager with a strong technical foundation and a passion for leading complex hardware initiatives. They are an exceptional communicator who can build trusted relationships across teams, influence without authority, and align diverse stakeholders around common goals. This person thrives in fast-paced environments, remains calm under pressure, and can effectively manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail. They possess strong problem-solving skills, a customer-first mindset, and the ability to proactively identify risks and drive resolution. A successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution and be comfortable presenting recommendations and program updates to senior leaders and executives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Primary support contact in sustaining for internal stakeholders

• Foster relationships and manage customer expectations to ensure needs are aligned with AMD business goals and revenue objectives

• Maintain awareness of, and provide status reports on, program schedule, status, and key issues

• Identify program risks and develop mitigation plans

• Manage customer critical issues and escalations

• Manage customer sampling requirements in development

• Align with AMD cross-functional teams (Business Unit, Sales, Engineering) on customer engagement, with emphasis on driving technical enablement/communications, technical support, and debug/issue resolution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong experience in program management

• Experience driving product development with hardware platforms and related software ecosystem.

• Well-versed with different project management tools

• Good breadth and strong technical knowledge (SoC, BIOS, Platforms, SW, Tools, Manufacturing) and experience in overall product stack and not just limited to silicon.

• Excellent communication skills. Excellent skills of managing up with right set of data/reports to executives for visibility and decision making.

  • Ability to align, resolve conflicts and build consensus among parties working towards the final goal.
  • High sense of urgency and drive for results.
  • Relentless focus on customer satisfaction.

• Experience in creating and deploying processes for efficiency and scalability

• Experience working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment

• The ability to objectively analyze information, synthesize data, and draw a rational conclusion

• Highly organized, able to prioritize, and juggle multiple work streams to tight deadlines

• Excellent written and verbal communication and expertise in Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams)

• Seasoned in leveraging MS Project, Excel, Share Point, Teams for clear communication and coordination of work.

• Ability to network quickly and independently to align resources towards a common goal.

Ways to stand out:

• Strong understanding of the general silicon engineering process, from concept to tape-out to production

• Proven track record of enabling several NPI programs resulting in successful products.

• Comfortable defining and implementing complex program with intimate understanding of dependencies, critical paths, key and critical landmarks, and results.

• Knowledge of GPU technologies, HPC, or AI ecosystem is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS in EE, CE, or CS

• PMP certification is a nice to have

LOCATION: Austin, TX

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.