Product Development Engineering Manager

Manager, Product Development Engineering

The Role

Lead and manage a team of test engineers responsible for product development activities on AMD products. Ensure the delivery of test coverage, test flow, characterization, and implementation from wafer sort through pack out to meet business requirements. Develop and maintain test plans and documentation, including HW specifications.

The Person

A self-starter who is passionate about leading-edge technology, being an inspiring leader, excellent communicator who can engage with key partners at all levels to drive technical and strategic alignment. These abilities will resolve ambiguity and adapt to changes in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. This person will be an established strategic and result-oriented leader who consistently raises the bar to drive the team and the wider organization for success. Exceptional problem-solving skills, effective communication and the ability to work with geographically distributed teams. Ability to influence across organizational boundaries. The greatest asset at AMD is its people; we are looking for a compassionate leader who develops and strengthens the team's skillsets and invests time with individual team members' career development and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing pre-silicon test requirements and driving Design Verification deliveries.
• Executing the defined characterization and test plans on new silicon.
• Deliver test programs and debug support during NPI through production ramp.
• Driving yield and quality improvements across wafer sort, final test, and system level test.
• Responsible for ensuring the defined product meets customer (quality) & company (yield, test time, schedule) requirements.
• Provide direct supervision and coaching to individual contributors.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing a team.
• Experience with developing tests, patterns/vectors, timing, and diagnostics on Automated Test Equipment (93K, T2K, etc).
• Competency in or understanding of Semiconductor process, packaging, test technologies, DFT features such as ATPG Scan, memory BIST, JTAG, and at-speed testing, product characterization and test point optimization.
• Experience in XP, AGILE, Scrum, or Kanban as Scrum Master or Product Owner.
• Statistical analysis experience to determine population mean and outliers.
• Pareto analysis experience to drive a debug process.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with geographically distributed product engineering teams.
• Experience presenting to Director level management internally.
• Experience on system-level test is an asset.

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or related field/experience.

Location

Austin, TX

Key skills/competency

• Product Development Engineering
• Test Engineering Management
• Semiconductor Testing
• Automated Test Equipment (ATE)
• NPI (New Product Introduction)
• Yield Improvement
• Quality Assurance
• Design Verification
• Team Leadership
• Statistical Analysis