Principal SoC Reliability Lead Engineer

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THE ROLE

As the Reliability Lead, you will serve as the technical authority for extended reliability modeling and silicon-level risk assessment across AMD’s next-generation x86 SoCs. This role is pivotal in ensuring our products meet rigorous reliability standards for automotive, industrial, networking, and edge markets. You will define strategies that safeguard product longevity and performance under diverse operating conditions, influencing design decisions from concept through production.

THE PERSON

We are seeking a reliability expert who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software. You bring deep physics-of-failure knowledge and system-level power and firmware expertise to the table. You will collaborate with architecture, design, and firmware teams to implement aging-aware performance projections, define DVFS policies, and validate models against silicon data. Your ability to anticipate reliability risks and drive mitigation strategies will ensure AMD delivers robust, long-lived solutions that power mission-critical environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Product & System‑Level Reliability Ownership

• Own end‑to‑end reliability for SoC‑based products, spanning silicon, package, board, platform, firmware, and system usage models.
• Translate customer use cases (e.g., automotive, embedded, edge) into system‑level reliability requirements and risk assessments.
• Drive product‑level tradeoff decisions (performance, power, reliability, cost, schedule) rather than narrow domain optimizations.

Cross‑Functional Technical Leadership

• Act as the single reliability interface across silicon design, packaging, platform, validation, firmware, and program management teams.
• Lead alignment discussions where no single function has full ownership, requiring strong influence without authority.
• Represent reliability perspective in architecture, PDL, and system HLD discussions.

System‑Level Risk Assessment & Tradeoffs

• Identify and prioritize system‑level reliability risks early in the product lifecycle.
• Drive risk mitigation strategies that balance reliability with product constraints.
• Evaluate reliability implications of architecture choices, packaging options, operating conditions, and customer usage models.

Technical Judgment Beyond Narrow Domains

• Operate beyond wafer‑level, fuse‑level, or single IP‑level reliability.
• “Zoom out” to assess how individual technical issues impact overall product robustness and customer experience.
• Provide clear recommendations when data is incomplete, based on engineering judgment and prior product experience.

Mentorship & Role Definition

• Serve as a technical bar‑raiser for reliability thinking across teams.
• Help shape how reliability is defined, reviewed, and executed across programs.
• Contribute to refining interview criteria, role expectations, and hiring bar for future reliability talent.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Technical & Leadership Experience

• Principle‑level experience demonstrating product‑level and system‑level ownership.
• Proven ability to lead broad, ambiguous, cross‑functional technical problems.
• Strong background in SoC‑based systems (client, embedded, automotive, or server‑class).

System & Product Thinking

• Demonstrated ability to:

• Think beyond textbook reliability models.
• Make tradeoff decisions at the product/system level.
• Communicate complex technical risks clearly to diverse stakeholders.

• Experience dealing with real customer use cases, not only theoretical or lab‑based scenarios.

Preferred Background

• Prior experience owning reliability for shipping products, ideally across multiple generations.
• Exposure to system architecture discussions, customer engagements, or platform tradeoff reviews.
• Experience working in interface‑heavy roles requiring influence across organizations.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

LOCATION:

US Remote

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.