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Technical Manager LPDDR / GDDR Memory Validation - 110713

The Role:

As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s product portfolio, you will be part of a high-performance AMD team driving the delivery of high quality, industry leading product technology to market. The SCBU team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

The Person:

The AMD Semi-Custom Business Unit (CGE) is looking for a dynamic, upbeat systems memory manager to join our growing team passionate about GDDR6, LPDDR5, and future memory technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a hardworking distributed team passionate about delivering a robust memory sub-system for new APU/CPU semi-custom products, including pre-silicon and post-silicon work
• Own the team to innovate methods for pre-silicon memory validation and efficiencies for post silicon memory bring up, feature enablement, optimization, and validation
• Lead system memory validation strategy from pre-silicon through customer adoption working across architecture, silicon design, firmware, validation, and debug teams
• Proactively leading project planning, developing and maintaining schedules, managing dependencies, and ensuring quality of work you're doing at committed landmarks
• Working directly with our customers to ensure their memory solutions meet industry best requirements
• Drive debug and resolution of system memory issues across silicon, firmware/BIOS, and coordinating with memory partners as needed
• Develops regular status representing the system memory team in program meetings providing status to program and senior management
• Coaches and mentors staff

Preferred Experience:

• Engineering management and technical leadership experience in system memory domain
• Experience in system memory validation and / or SOC IP electrical characterization, preferably in GDDR6, LPDDR5, or similar technologies
• Experience in the debug of I/O interfaces such as GDDR and LPPDR
• Good written and oral communication skills, with the ability to connect with a variety of engineering fields and management

Academic Credentials:

• MSEE or BSEE with 10 years of experience