Chip Lead

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • Santa Clara, CA

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About The Position

AMD is seeking a Chip Lead to broaden their technical impact across the full chip development lifecycle. The role partners with chip leads and cross-functional engineering teams, applying deep expertise in one or more areas while developing broad technical fluency across architecture, design, validation, and production. It is suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, working across technical boundaries, and growing toward broader chip-level leadership.

The successful candidate is a technically versatile engineer with semiconductor-domain expertise and broad understanding of chip development. They are proactive and collaborative, thrive in ambiguous environments, influence technical decisions across teams, balance technical depth with system-level thinking, and work across organizational boundaries to deliver successful silicon products.

The position is located in Santa Clara, California, and is not eligible for visa sponsorship. AMD states that benefits are described in its “AMD benefits at a glance” materials, without listing specific benefits in the posting. The posting is for an existing vacancy.

Requirements

• Strong ASIC/SoC development experience across multiple areas, such as architecture, RTL, verification, physical design, power, packaging, silicon validation, manufacturing, and production ramp.
• Deep expertise in one or more semiconductor disciplines and broad knowledge of the end-to-end chip development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, RTL design and synthesis, verification, timing closure, power optimization, DFT, silicon bring-up, and manufacturing processes.
• Proficiency with Verilog, VHDL, and/or SystemVerilog.
• Experience with industry-standard ASIC design methodologies and EDA tools.
• Strong technical problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive results without formal authority.
• Experience working effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with advanced process nodes, including 7nm and below.
• Exposure to CPU, GPU, FPGA, AI/ML accelerators, and/or networking devices.
• Previous technical leadership or mentoring experience.
• Master’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to chip development from architecture through production.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple phases of the silicon development lifecycle.
• Drive technical decisions and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Partner with chip leads and program managers on execution, planning, dependencies, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate across architecture, RTL, verification, physical design, validation, software, packaging, and manufacturing teams.
• Interface with customers, foundries, IP vendors, and EDA partners as needed.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders and contribute to continuous improvement of design methodologies and engineering processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior