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Director -AI Driven Silicon Design

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Fishkill, NY)$216.1k - $324.1kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Director of Silicon Design to lead AI-driven methodologies across AMD's x86 Core Development Organization, owning the technical vision and execution strategy for embedding AI/ML into engineering workflows spanning verification, RTL design, and physical design.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy, roadmap, and organizational adoption of AI-driven methodologies across verification, RTL design, and physical design within x86 core development.
  • Build, lead, and grow a team of engineers and technical leaders driving AI adoption initiatives (e.g., predictive coverage modeling, intelligent test generation and triage, RTL code assistance, timing/congestion prediction, floorplan and place-and-route optimization).
  • Partner with Cores engineering leadership, architecture, design, verification, physical design, and internal tooling/data engineering teams to prioritize investments and align AI initiatives to business and engineering priorities.
  • Define and own organizational success metrics, including verification velocity, coverage closure, PPA targets, design-cycle schedule adherence, and defect escape rate, and communicate progress to executive stakeholders.
  • Drive evaluation and adoption decisions on emerging AI tools and platforms, including build-versus-buy and infrastructure investment recommendations.
  • Lead organizational adoption of AI-augmented workflows, including technical enablement, training, and best-practice development.
  • Identify, escalate, and resolve cross-organizational technical challenges and barriers to successful AI adoption.
  • Manage organizational headcount planning and resource allocation for the AI engineering team.
  • Serve as the primary executive point of contact for AI adoption initiatives within core development, presenting strategy, progress, and business impact to senior and executive leadership.
  • Mentor engineers and technical leaders on applying AI/ML methods to solve complex design and development challenges.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading engineering organizations with cross-functional initiatives; prior people-management experience.
  • Direct experience in CPU or SoC development (verification, RTL design, and/or physical design).
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML or data science approaches to engineering, hardware design, or EDA problems with measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to set multi-year technical strategy and translate it into execution plans.
  • Accountability mindset for organizational outcomes and alignment with goals.
  • Executive-level communication skills; experience managing investments and external vendors including EDA vendors.
  • Experience spanning more than one of verification, RTL design, and physical design.
  • Hands-on technical background with AI/ML tooling and frameworks.
  • Experience building an organization or practice from the ground up, including hiring and processes.
  • Familiarity with EDA tooling and vendors (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDA).

Skills

Required:AI/ML strategy and executionCPU/SoC developmentLeadership and people managementAI/ML tooling and frameworks

Benefits

  • AMD benefits at a glance (link provided)
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