Director Product Development Eng.

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The candidate must have a BS or MSEE degree and a minimum of 15 years of relevant working experience in new product development from a design, platform, product and/or program management discipline. The candidate should have experience both as a technical lead as well as a Program manager of complex CPUs or GPUs. The candidate must also have a strong understanding of the general silicon engineering process (preferably CPU or APU), from concept to tape-out to production. Furthermore, the candidate should have experience with driving a multi-site and multi-disciplined engineering program.

The candidate should be a proven leader, be able create and maintain a working cross functional team and manage in a matrixed environment. A successful candidate must have exceptional verbal, as well as written, communication skills. In addition, the role requires outstanding people management skills to lead, motivate, and guide world class engineers.

Additional requirements:

- Technical depth across multiple engineering disciplines to drive decisions and resolution

- - Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to structure and execute complex analysis, draw insights, and communicate summary findings/recommendations to senior management and AMD customers
- Ability to network, build relationships, and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization
- Highly organized, able to prioritize, and juggle multiple work streams to tight deadlines

Responsibilities:

Chief Engineer for Server CPU program:

• Technical expertise gained through High-Performance product execution in one or more of the following areas:
• High Performance Design – CPU/GPU
• Test and Product engineering
• Validation – electrical or functional validation
• System Architecture
• Technical expertise should have been gained over at least 5-6 SoC/Products preferably in the latest process nodes
• No excuses attitude to own a product from start-to-finish driving whole product execution - HW, FW & SW
• Relentless drive for operational discipline – automation, analytics and process improvement to achieve productivity gains
• Capability to ruthlessly prioritize and clear obstacles for the team.
• Lead technical debug & feature prioritization, schedule alignment and budget attainment
• Executive presence
• 15 years of progressive technical experience
• Roles where you managed through influence and not direct line responsibility will be a huge plus
• Thrives in “responsibility without line authority” leadership – Role will not have direct reports but will be responsible to deliver a multi-billion dollar product driving execution through a highly matrixed organization

Key deliverables:
- “All aspects of the program, in alignment with the customer and Business Division objectives”

Location:  Austin, TX

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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