Product Development Engineering Test Manager

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Product Development Engineering Test Manager

The primary role of this position is:

This is an engineering management position responsible for a product test team. Manages and controls activities in multi-functional areas of the team. Team activities ensure overall compatibility, compliance, and test coverage of AMD microprocessors from pre-silicon planning through high volume manufacturing by designing, developing, and modifying product specific test hardware, software and diagnostics. Team correlates the test solution to lab/manufacturing/customer platforms to validate product design, fabrication process, packaging technology, and manufacturing robustness to product specifications. Acts as liaison with internal customers/partners and vendors.

Potential roles of a Test Manager include:

• Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and the process by which to meet those goals.
• Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.
• Communicate status to management or executive staff.
• Influences technical decisions that have an impact on final product.
• Champions important technical decisions.
• Management reviews work to measure meeting of objectives.
• Provides direct supervision to professional individual contributors and/or skilled support individual contributors (i.e. technicians, support personnel).
• Provides direction to individual contributors according to established policies and management guidance.
• Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Runs weekly 1:1 with individual contributors providing feedback and coaching.
• Sets clear team goals and responsibilities.
• Acts as advisor to a unit or sub-units and may become actively involved as required to meet schedules and resolve problems.
• Identifies talent gaps, recruiting diverse candidates internally and externally.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with other departments.
• Collaborate on or assume responsibility for a specific project, or a definable portion of a larger project or process.
• Other duties as necessary.

Qualifications:

Years of experience and education: Candidates will have a B.S. or M.S. degree plus 5 years of engineering or related experience and 2 years of experience managing a team.

Required Skills:

• >5 years of experience in product development, preferably in semiconductors.
• >4 years of experience managing projects.
• >2 years of experience managing a team.
• >2 years of experience with developing tests, patterns/vectors, timing, and diagnostics on Automated Test Equipment (preferred Advantest v93k)
• 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.

Preferred Skills:

• Courses or certifications in project management (PMI, LSS, AGILE)
• Experience with revision control (GIT, SVN, CVS, RCS or similar).
• Debug experience in hardware, software, device, and/or manufacturing domains.
• Experience with C , Java, C, or C#.
• Experience with a scripting language (Perl, Ruby, shell script, or similar).
• Experience with logic analyzers, voltmeters, oscilloscopes, and other debug tools.
• Experience with Linux or Unix Operating Systems.
• Experience with Microsoft standard apps (i.e. Office), Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Location:

Austin, TX

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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