Sr. Program Manager, Component Quality

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The Role

Seeking a candidate with subject matter expertise to join AMD’s Component Quality & Reliability team, driving component quality from concept to end of life to ensure a differentiated experience, de-risk AMD product quality and build customer confidence. The suitable candidate will be accountable for key components used on AMD Products. This is a high visibility role for highly experienced candidates.

The Person

The ideal candidate will have technical negotiating skills and communication skills. Will be highly organized, able to prioritize, and juggle multiple workstreams to tight deadlines. A self-starter and positive attitude with a strong desire to succeed.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier interface for key component suppliers across all AMD Business Units.
• Issue Management: Lead and drive resolution of supplier quality/reliability excursions (primary interface with supplier on quality excursions to drive root cause/containment/corrective action/etc. as required).
• Component Spec Management: With cross-functional team input, develop and drive supplier compliance to AMD component spec requirements as applicable by commodity (i.e. De-rating, Electrical spec requirements, APQP, reliability, outgoing DPPM (defective parts per million) and quality, etc. by production release target dates.
• Production ramp readiness review lead: Lead mass production readiness review of key supplier manufacturing facilities, participating in on-site factory audits as required.
• Define Component KPIs: KPIs that supplier must deliver through development into MP readiness, and measure and improve outgoing supplier quality control through component end-of-life.
• DFM (Design for Manufacturability) compliance: Ensure alignment between design and operations (ASIC Package and Board Ops/Engineering) to confirm supplier manufacturing tolerances meet AMD DFM requirements.
• Supplier, AMD Sourcing Council, AMD Component and Board Design teams, AMD Silicon & Package Reliability teams, AMD Engineering leadership, Global Operations and Quality leadership, and AMD BU’s.
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience in Manufacturing and Quality Control with any of the following: mechanical enclosures, discrete semiconductors, multi-chip modules, memory, power modules, board products.
• Experience developing process quality plans, supplier quality audits, and driving 8D root cause/corrective actions, reliability testing, 6 sigma, and failure analysis.
• Supplier facing experience with ability to network, build relationships and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization. Strong communication skills are essential.
• Highly organized, able to prioritize, and juggle multiple workstreams to tight deadlines.
• Self-starter and positive attitude with a strong desire to succeed.
• Hands on experience with process capability analysis, measurement system analysis (GRR - Gage Repeatability and Responsibility, ARR), cross-cavity check and process qualifications.
• Strong project management skills, working in a global matrix organization.
• Experience working with international OEMs/ CM.
• Travel internationally to supplier sites - 25%.
  
  
  

Education

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or similar
  
  
  

Location:

Austin, TX

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