Director, CPU Silicon Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Fort Collins, CO

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About The Position

AMD’s Cores Organization delivers CPUs, caches, and chiplets that support its server, client, and gaming businesses. The Director of CPU Silicon Engineering provides technical and organizational leadership for advanced CPU/core silicon engineering. The role spans silicon development, validation, post-silicon execution, debug, infrastructure, and cross-functional engineering coordination. It works closely with RTL, Design Verification, Physical Design, DFT, validation, diagnostics, and other engineering organizations to coordinate execution and drive cross-functional decisions. The role is part of the leadership team based in Fort Collins, Colorado. The successful candidate will lead leaders and have a record of delivering complex, high-performance cache or CPU designs to production silicon on aggressive schedules. They will connect pre-silicon design and verification with post-silicon execution, driving technical issues, risks, schedules, methodologies, and silicon readiness to closure across disciplines. The role calls for creativity, innovation, sound judgment, and strong communication with engineers, architects, partner organizations, and senior executives. The director will build and scale high-performing teams by hiring talent, developing managers and senior technical leaders, and fostering ownership, collaboration, and accountability.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in EE, CS, CSE, or a similar field.
Multiple years of hardware design experience, including people leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

Extensive experience in CPU, SoC, or advanced semiconductor development.
Deep knowledge of silicon design, validation, bring-up, diagnostics, and debug.
Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Experience managing execution across multiple silicon or product generations.
Strong knowledge of RTL design, verification, silicon validation, test, and debug methodologies.
Track record of developing senior engineers and technical leaders.
Experience recruiting highly specialized engineering talent.
Ability to communicate complex silicon issues effectively to audiences ranging from individual contributors to executives.
Ability to communicate clearly with executives and collaborate effectively with diverse teams across disciplines and geographies.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across complex silicon design, validation, debug, and bring-up activities.
Drive resolution of cross-functional technical issues spanning RTL, design verification, physical design, DFT, diagnostics, and silicon validation.
Maintain visibility into silicon readiness, engineering risks, execution dependencies, and issues requiring management attention.
Participate in major program and methodology decisions affecting current and future CPU/core development.
Lead post-silicon test, diagnostics, debug, and validation strategy.
Ensure engineering teams have the infrastructure, test capability, and technical coordination needed to identify, isolate, and resolve silicon issues efficiently.
Communicate post-silicon operational status, priorities, risks, and execution needs to senior leadership.
Represent silicon engineering priorities in leadership forums.
Coordinate technical planning and decision-making across current and future product generations.
Balance immediate execution requirements with investments in methodology, automation, infrastructure, and longer-term engineering capability.
Evaluate staffing needs against program execution requirements and technical capability gaps.
Recruit and retain senior engineering talent for highly specialized silicon engineering roles.
Develop technical leadership capacity within the engineering organization.