Product Engineering Manager (NPI)

THE ROLE:

As a New Product Introduction Product Engineering Manager, you will lead the Product Engineering (PE) team under the Product Engineering Organization (PEO) to develop exciting next generation AMD products. You will work closely with world class Product Test, Design, Quality, Reliability, Customer, Software and Platform global teams to plan and develop the final product solution to meet Cost, Yield and Quality targets. With close collaboration with end customers, you will also have insights into the product and guide your team to achieve customer expectations.

THE PERSON:

We are looking for someone with strong technical, analytical, leadership and problem-solving skills, as well as demonstrating the characteristics of an independent and resourceful individual. Preferably, the candidate should have experience in leading NPI teams and understanding the ecosystem of product development. Good communication is also key to successful collaboration. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the Product Engineering team in silicon characterization and analysis to develop Product Definition to meet customer requirements and achieve Yield and Cost target.
• Interface with US product groups, design, platform validation, BIOS and test engineers on root cause resolution for device failures along with power and performance settings.
• Provide Product Technical leadership to PEO teams, drive alignment among teams to achieve product technical requirements.
• Oversee device and process reliability, assess implications of stress-testing outcomes, balance business and quality/reliability requirements for Products and Processes in question
• Set goal, plan and coordinate (data analysis, debug, root-cause, implementing solutions) yield improvement activities.
• Lead effort to optimize product positioning to meet business requirements, from Fab Assembly
• Provide timely debug for customer reported issues, assist customer and quality teams to provide resolutions.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Analytical Thinker: able to assess problems, plan for experiments/next steps and drive team to execute.
• Data Analytics: able to understand complex data and draw technical conclusions to drive the next step.
• Experience in Product Management methodology, fab process and/or x86/GPU/High Speed IO operation is preferred.
• Perform new device characterization, circuit sensitivity analysis, interpret findings and work with the technical teams to root-cause, and/or provide mitigation actions for any observations.
• Work with global teams across the organization during New Product Introduction phase to validate new device features and test/DFT methodologies, and implement them in production flow while balancing yield and quality
• Strong and effective presentation, written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work with geographically distributed product engineering teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in leading small teams.
• 10yrs or more experience in the semiconductor industry and worked on NPI 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS/MS Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or comparable disciplines