Technical Program Manager, Pre-Silicon Development

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

AMD's Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group is looking for a silicon savvy technical program leader in the pre-Silicon program management organization. This role involves working with a team of senior program managers chartered to drive the execution of key development programs from concept to tape out. Pre-Silicon program management requires driving the execution of the entire product stack where different deliverables come from various engineering teams and functions across AMD, including Product Planning requirements, Architecture definition, IP design/delivery, SoC Integration, Verification, and SW co-development. With a big picture view of the end-to-end program plan and execution, you will coordinate and resolve dependencies among different engineering teams to ensure intermediary milestones are met and execution remains on track. Program success is defined by meeting or exceeding the scope, schedule, and spend of the program.

Requirements

BS or MS engineering degree or demonstration of competency in several of these areas is required.
In lieu of actual program management experience, a candidate could have technical or project lead experience in IC design or SoC development.
Depth and breadth in the related disciplines of silicon and SoC design development including RTL, Functional and Performance verification/validation, and Physical design.
Ability to learn on the job.

Nice To Haves

Experience demonstrating that they can perform complex work involving new or constantly changing difficult problems.
Possesses a thorough knowledge of the principles of project management and can apply them effectively on small to large size projects.
Exercises outstanding initiative, judgment, and decision-making ability in dealing with complex factors that are not easily evaluated for which there is little precedent on how to select methods and techniques for obtaining solutions to problems.
Demonstrates they work independently to complete projects on schedule and will succeed when receiving general guidance on new assignments.
Achieve results through others and should have excellent skills working within teams and across organizational boundaries.
Knowledge and experience with FPGA HW/SW development is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Define, plan and drive projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance.
Ensure programs follow their execution metrics and changes are tackled with agility and quick planning.
Has responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas.
Drive key initiatives to improve program management effectiveness.
Craft and deploy processes for strong rigor/discipline to constantly uplevel the execution focus and efficiency. Lead and drive these process adoptions across the overall program management org.
Create and maintain project management artifacts such as schedule, resource and resource forecast, risk and issues logs.
Provide unique views of project status updates and facilitates cross development team dependencies and communications.
Manage and handle escalations with a sense of urgency and proactive problem solving.
Prepare and present program status reports to executive and highlighting risks, data for pros cons analysis of decision making.
Drive cross functional alignment among different teams including the other program managers.
Share best practices with other product program management organizations.