Sr. Director HPC/ML/AI GPU SOC Validation - Job at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Austin, TX

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Sr. Director HPC/ML/AI GPU SOC Validation

THE PERSON:

Seeking a strong technical leader who has worked in the semiconductor industry with experience testing both SOCs and enterprise class server systems. You enjoy developing talent and growing worldwide teams. In addition, you are a change agent with a proven record of pushing the boundary of testing and driving test innovation. You possess strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills. You thrive on collaboration and solving complex organization challenges.

THE ROLE:

You will be part of the Graphics Data Center and Accelerated Processing Validation team reporting to the Corporate VP of SOC/System validation. . You will get the opportunity to collaborate with Silicon Designers/Architects, Firmware, SW, and validation teams to bring our products to market. We are working with the world's leading Cloud Service Providers and Supercomputing institutions to enable AMD's GPU accelerators into their clusters. You will have the latitude to innovate and be part of driving change. This 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 and opportunity to grow your career and interact with AMD's senior leadership team.

Technical Leadership role responsible for leading our functional and electrical testing organizations to plan and execute our next generation ML/AI/HPC products. You will lead a large team (70-90+) including directors, key technical leads and other team members. The work will require interlock with other engineering and business teams including SOC Design/Architecture, FW/SW, and Product Management teams. The role covers SOC 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 that can drive change and innovation to our post-silicon test capabilities. If you like pushing the envelope of what is possible and collaborate across teams to raise the test bar, you will fit into our future goals. We want people who have system knowledge and experience with highly complex SOC/Systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead post-silicon validation planning & execution of functional and electrical testing that span variety of IP areas including core graphics, internal I/O, external HSIO, Memory, & Fusing. In addition, you will lead the power/performance attainment efforts. You will also own many system level areas like RAS, Virtualization, Security and Systems Management testing.
Build and cultivate strong relationships with key engineering organizations including firmware, software, silicon design and other validation organization.
Recruit top talent to support the team's growth plans and develop the existing engineering team
Drive test innovation and strategic initiatives based on learning from prior programs and your own best practice knowledge
Partner with peers to drive quality enhancements through methodology improvements and collaboration of manufacturing testing
Support debug and customer interactions as required

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Extensive experience working in Silicon/System hardware validation
Experience running SOC/System functional and electrical testing
Strong knowledge of silicon/system test methodologies
Prior roles leading other managers and teams of 100+ people
Demonstrated strength in developing and growing technical teams
Prior experience in pre-silicon testing in DV, Emulation/Simulation a plus
Graphics or ML/AI/HPC experience a plus
Understanding of HW/FW/SW interaction and system-level design
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Demonstrated ability in "showing initiative" to get things done
Excellent communication skills including presenting to senior executives
Self starter with initiaitve

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering

LOCATION:

Austin Tx

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