Senior Staff, Substrate Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Tokyo, Japan · Engineering

This role focuses on developing advanced substrate technologies for AMD's product roadmap, including AI and data centers. The engineer will define technology roadmaps, partner with architects and designers to create cost-effective substrate solutions, select development partners, and qualify package substrates. The role requires a strong background in packaging and board design, materials, and equipment, with experience in new process development and supplier management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define advanced substrate and board technology roadmap across pitch scaling, power delivery, signal integrity and cost vectors
  2. Partner with AMD architects, designers, and product owners to define high yielding, cost effective substrate solutions which meet product requirements
  3. Select development partners to bring into AMD supply chain to enable industry leading substrate and PCB technology building blocks.
  4. Partner with product, quality and manufacturing engineering teams to meet various milestones for manufacturability, yield and reliability from concept through NPI.
  5. Qualify package substrates of new products meeting cost and yield targets.

Skills

Required

  • developing advanced packaging technologies
  • identifying and enabling new substrate and PCB vendors
  • hands-on approach to new process development
  • deep knowledge of packaging and board design rules, process flows, materials, and equipment
  • excellent oral and written communication skills

Nice to have

  • leading cross functional teams to achieve technology certification, yield/cost reduction initiatives, equipment set up
  • communicating complex technical challenges to executive level/management
  • working with international teams across various time zones