Firmware Program Manager Job Listing at AMD in Markham, ON (Job ID 74486-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

THE ROLE: 

The Firmware Security Engineering group is responsible for developing Platform Security and Content Protection features across the software stack including device drivers, firmware, and application-level interfaces. Within the larger Security group, the GPU Platform Security Team is responsible for the Firmware Security Stack that runs on the entire range of AMD Graphics Processing Units which include Cloud/Consumer Gaming, Workstation, Data Center and AI, enabling our customers to build solutions and driving the next wave of innovation in Exascale computing.

Our team is committed to developing talent to its full potential. If you are looking to engage in a fast-paced encouraging environment, allowing you to strengthen your skills in the security domain, while providing opportunities for experience with both device driver and embedded development - then this team is for you!

THE PERSON: 

We are currently seeking a highly motivated Technical Program Manager for our next generation of products. In this role, you will drive development, validation and debug efforts while providing  ownership for HW and SW features which span the security stack.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Engage with leadership to understand and capture scope, establish project schedules, and develop resource and budget estimations.
• Assess and communicate program status and risk to leadership, while supporting geographically distributed engineering and validation team with execution
• In conjunction with technical leads, drive and influence presilicon emulation, post-silicon validation and ASIC bring-up, towards successful enablement of security centric features.
• Drive process improvements initiatives in order to improve overall execution of programs.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Ability to work independently under tight deadlines, responding to changing business and technical conditions with minimal direction.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and program management skills.
• Experience in the semi-conductor domain with knowledge of pre / post silicon development would be an asset.
• Experience with low level development including device drivers, embedded firmware and SOC validation would be an asset.
• Knowledge of Cryptography, DRM & Platform Security concepts would be an asset.

• Engineering background preferred 
• Experience with Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence and Excel is an asset 
• Experience with Agile methodology 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering 
• Formal Project Management education, PMP certified 

LOCATION: Markham, Ontario Canada 

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