Program Manager

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Hsinchu, Taiwan · Engineering

Program Manager at AMD responsible for driving the schedule, logistics, and overall program success of a product engineering team focused on AMD Instinct Accelerators. The role involves managing product deliverables, schedules, cross-functional activities, pre-silicon planning, customer sample execution, and high-volume manufacturing readiness. It requires collaboration with various internal organizations and geographically distributed teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Communicate status to management or executive staff
  2. Define and manage key product deliverables/schedules and driving cross functional activities
  3. Drive pre-silicon planning
  4. Drive customer samples execution and high-volume manufacturing readiness, once silicon arrives
  5. Work closely with our Asia Engineering and Operations counterparts (extensive interactions within the Product Engineering organization)

Skills

Required

  • 6 years of experience in semiconductor product development, preferably CPUs
  • 4 years of experience managing projects
  • B.S. or M.S. degree plus 6 years of engineering or related experience

Nice to have

  • 4 Experience using Microsoft standard apps (i.e. Office), Microsoft Windows Operating Systems to manage schedule, budget and provide status updates
  • Good communication skills and the ability to work with geographically distributed product engineering teams
  • Background in Solid State Physics, Computer Architecture, Digital or Analog Design
  • Background in Product Engineering or Program Management
  • Debug experience in hardware, software, device, and/or manufacturing domains.
  • Courses or certifications in project management (PMI, LSS, AGILE, ISO 9000)
  • Experience in XP, AGILE, Scrum, or Kanban

What the JD emphasized

  • AMD Instinct Accelerators
  • pre-silicon planning
  • high volume manufacturing