Director, Server Platform & Systems Validation Engineering

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.   AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

As AMD grows, growing our leadership in systems engineering expertise is essential for all the new products in the AMD pipeline. Want to translate business goals into cutting-edge product and system features that meet those requirements? Make a significant impact in AMD’s Server business and the direction of the Data Center industry through this new, high-visibility role!    The leader of the Server Platform and Systems Engineering team advises our strategy, partnerships, engineering development teams, and global system development, system solutions, and customer engineering teams to deliver new and innovative system features to AMD product and systems. Lead forward looking, leadership capabilities into our products, software, firmware, ecosystem, and ultimately, shipping customer server systems. Drive cohesive strategy and plans, hire teams, and deliver innovation in the area of data center capabilities and user features.     The Person:  Seeking a strong technical leader who has worked in the semiconductor or systems industry with experience in post-silicon validation of server CPUs,  enterprise class servers, and large-scale clusters. You enjoy developing talent and growing best in class teams. In addition, you are a change agent with a proven record of pushing the boundary of validation and driving validation innovation. You possess strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills. You thrive on collaboration and solving complex organization challenges.

You will be part of the Server Platform and Systems Engineering Validation team reporting to the Senior Director of Functional Validation team. You will get the opportunity to lead the Systems/Platform team as they collaborate with Silicon Designers/Architects, Firmware, Core Functional Validation, Software and Customer Engineering teams to bring our products to market. You will have the latitude to innovate and be a change leader.  Our Server CPU business is the fastest growing within the company and in the computing industry at large. This will be a very visible role which will provide you an opportunity to grow your career and interact with AMD's senior leadership team.    Technical Leadership role responsible for leading various teams that own System Level validation and other validation functions for our next generation EPYC server CPU products. You will lead a team comprising of Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sr. Managers and other key technical leads The work will require interlock with other engineering and business. The role covers CPU post-si validation planning to silicon Bring-up through production. Role is a large cross-functional role requiring technical depth/breadth and strong leadership skills. In addition to test planning and execution, we are seeking a mature, seasoned leader with System level and debug experience to help elevate our test methodologies and ability to scale. If you like pushing the envelope of what is possible and collaborate across teams to raise the bar, you will fit into our future goals. We want people who have system knowledge and experience with highly complex Systems.

Extensive experience working in Silicon and System validation