Senior Manager Board Design - Datacenter GPU - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

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Senior Manager Board Design - Datacenter GPU

THE ROLE: 

As the Senior Manager, Board Design/Electrical Engineering in the Datacenter and GPU Accelerated Processing Division, you will be responsible for the board design and development for AMD products in this expanding and strategic market for AMD.  To accomplish these developments you will interact with other key engineering teams such as silicon design, packaging, signal integrity, thermal/mechanical, platform validation, and manufacturing and leaders within AMD, customers, and partners. 

THE PERSON: 

The Senior Manager of Board Design/Electrical Engineering will have excellent communication skills, planning skills, technical expertise, is a team player, possesses broad managerial/technical leadership skills` and critical problem solving and trouble shooting skills, is a self-starter and is well organized. They will be market savvy and comfortable in a multi-tasking environment. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The Senior Manager of Board Design/Electrical Engineering will be responsible for developing and leading a team of approximately 10 engineers in a highly focused global engineering team based in Austin, Texas. The successful candidate will have a board engineering development background and work as part of a global team in delivering commercially viable products (silicon to systems) to the marketplace in a timely and cost-effective manner. 

The Senior Manager will manage work assignments and coordinate results cross-functionally, and globally, responsible for building and motivating a high-performance team as well as developing key relationships with OEM/ODM customers.  In addition, at a technical level the person will be able to direct technical work within the team as well as mentor and develop employees within the team.   The position includes focusing on the technology development and productization of new product architectures and features, packaging technologies, and power regulation solutions at a board and system level for AMD’s products.  Specific pre-silicon work would include activities such as lead trial layout workstream to support GPU pinout development; drive schematic, layout, and BOM definition for board design; component and supplier selection for key board components; and program planning and resourcing for the board design team and with peer teams in signal integrity, thermal/mechanical, EMC, power/performance, board validation, and product validation.  Specific post-silicon work includes board bring-up, characterization, technical supplier management, and change management.  This role requires considerable use of initiative and independent judgment.  This role will also be a key person representing the team and its activities in program and platform core teams. 

The selected candidate will have the ability to ‘influence’ and effectively communicate their vision throughout the organization. They will be a driver of continuous improvement and new ways of thinking by promoting new ideas/perspectives around board design, architectures, and product definition.  

                                    The following defines successful performance criteria for the position: 

• Commercialization – The Senior Manager of Board Design/Electrical Engineering will bring together hardware, software, product development and manufacturing activities to deliver commercially-viable products/platforms to the marketplace in a timely and cost-effective manner.  The position will drive engineering work that spans a broad timeline from innovative technology development to productization. 
• Engineering Management – This individual will lead a highly technical team in a ‘hands-on’ manner to execute the product development plan, including regularly reviewing progress, adjusting resource usage, pro-actively managing employee performance and recommending initiation of new process improvements. 
• Planning and Execution – The role will be expected to review, summarize, and regularly update the product development execution plan for the team as well as budget of the group in concert with the program management resources within the organization.  This individual is expected to have demonstrated excellent planning skills and program management skills in a fast-paced multi-project environment. 
• Continuous Improvement – The role will be expected to constantly drive process improvements while executing fast time-to-market on products.  Key metrics will show progress and enable setting of targets.  Performance metrics and process improvements will be utilized to drive continuous improvements 

• Recruiting – The successful candidate will be responsible for recruiting and hiring engineering and technical staff to help grow and formalize his/her organizational effectiveness. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

The Senior Manager of Board Design/Electrical Engineering must have demonstrated the ability to be a constant force for innovation and improvement throughout their career. The successful candidate must have experience leading senior-level engineers and will play a pivotal role in empowering and strengthening the core values of this team. Our selected candidate will use his/her proven leadership and architecture skills to ensure the engineering team continuously innovates, uses ‘best practices’ and adds value for its customers. 

Critical Experiences & Competencies for Success: 

• Management/technical Leadership Experience - At least ten years (10+) of progressive management or technical subject matter leadership experience in a large, fast paced environment. Other experiences should include demonstrated accomplishments in growing, mentoring junior engineers, providing technical and career guidance, and ultimately building fully functional leadership teams. Project management of multiple technically diverse programs in parallel is required. 
• Technical Experience - Solid understanding of board design including knowledge of power regulation technologies, especially multi-phase solutions for high power products; high speed signaling interfaces such as PCIe Gen4/Gen5; PCB technology, layout, and stack-ups; design for cost and for manufacturing; power and signal integrity; industry standard bus topologies such as I2C, SMBUS, and PMBUS; Cadence design tool experience (Concept, Capture, Allegro); and common lab equipment such as hardware tools, digital oscilloscopes, and other common hardware equipment. 
• Business Acumen -AMD’s business is a challenging mix of leading-edge technology and extremely competitive business conditions.  This person will have the business intellect and aptitude needed to facilitate making difficult resource and program decisions that properly balance the business potential and technical challenges. 
• Strategic Thinking -   The decisions made by this position will have long term impact on the capability and competitiveness of the organization.  As a result, this person must be skilled at defining and implementing strategies in a dynamic, high-tech business environment that involves significant uncertainty, difficult competition, and potential for new entrants. 
• Teamwork -  Effective collaboration with the entire company, operations, vendors, and external partners is particularly critical for success.  Leading by example and instilling effective teamwork throughout the organization is imperative.   

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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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