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About the Role

The Firmware Technical Program Manager will lead the management and execution of server platform programs firmware development, issue investigation, and validation efforts throughout the product lifecycle. This role drives firmware and software design and development from specification definition to implementation, and enables OEM/ODM partners for customization, production readiness, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with AMD system and functional TPMs to translate product specifications into program firmware deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional teams to develop and introduce products against system level schedule for meeting critical phase exit criteria and TTM objectives.
• Lead requirement definition planning, development, and launch.
• Manage BIOS/BMC feature implementation plan based on the product specification, and drive feature enhancements, quality improvement support, and transition from validation test software into scripted test tools.
• Work with security architects, firmware teams, and customers regarding security requirement feature development, security enablement, and deployment flows.
• Support the execution of firmware validation progress against development schedule, including test case enhancement, data collection and analysis, diagnostics tools, and vendor management for failure analysis.
• Ensure the product firmware solution design supports manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability.
• Lead BKC Release Note Management, including authoring, reviewing, and maintaining firmware release notes aligned to BKC milestones; coordinate with teams for accurate and timely publication of release documentation.
• Drive cross-domain technical errata list review and consolidation, facilitating structured review cycles to identify, categorize, prioritize, and resolve errata items; maintain a consolidated errata repository and communicate status.
• Serve as the central coordination point for cross-functional technical readiness reviews, ensuring BKC release criteria and errata resolution milestones are met before product phase exits and customer deployments.

Requirements

• Must be a technically strong, self-driven technical program manager with a deep understanding of firmware.
• Ideal candidate is a collaborative leader who can work across hardware, firmware, and operations teams to drive execution and deliver data-based results in fast-paced environments.
• Drive AMD product solution deliverables and alignment with customers’ platforms to ensure highest level customer satisfaction throughout their product lifecycle.
• Experience managing BKC release documentation and firmware release notes in a server platform environment.
• Familiarity with errata tracking systems and cross-domain errata consolidation processes across hardware, firmware, and software domains.

Skills

• Firmware development using C/C++
• Firmware development model for BIOS and/or BMC
• Communication process with vendor for bug triage
• Test Tools Development including scripting for automation
• PCIe, SPI, USB, xGMI, SAS, SMBus, PMBus, IPMI, REST interfaces
• Systems-level design processes from board level to system level
• In-Band and Out-of-Band interoperability testing
• x-86 server system architecture
• Windows and Linux OS
• Business goals and objectives as they relate to customer use cases and solutions
• Cross-functional team management
• Interpersonal skills
• Adaptive communication style
• System level server platforms and component interaction
• Program management skills in developing schedules and tracking to milestones
• Hardware and system software interactions
• RoT Security Feature Development, Validation and debug experience like ERoT, Secure Boot, Attestation, or other similar functions
• Objectively viewing situations from different perspectives and promptly coming up with a risk mitigation plan
• Framing situations and making/driving issues to completion
• Resolving complex problems, driving for results, innovating, thinking, and leading strategically
• FPGA, GPU and CPLD development
• OpenBMC
• Bilingual (English and Mandarin)

Location

• Austin, TX
• Secaucus, NJ

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• PMP certification
• Formal project management education

Education Level

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance

About the Company

• At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us.
• AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI.
• Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

Equal Opportunity

• AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.