Manager Power Systems Design Engineering DataCenter 184294

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Manager Power Systems Design Engineering Datacenter GPU and Accelerated Processing

The Role:

As the Manager Power Systems Design Engineering in the Datacenter and GPU Accelerated Processing Division you will be responsible for the board power system design and development for AMD products in this expanding and strategic market for AMD. You will interact with other key engineering teams such as silicon design packaging board design signal integrity thermal/mechanical platform validation and manufacturing and leaders within AMD customers suppliers and partners.

In the Advanced System and Power team we design hightechnology platforms for worldclass productsbased on AMDs Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Our team plays a major part in architecting andshaping every graphics board offered by AMD.

We design cuttingedge power converters for our discrete graphics boards that retail around the world.Facing always more stringent demands in terms of the current level efficiency and responsiveness thesedesigns are essential to maximize the performance from our GPUs in an efficient and costeffectivemanner.

The Person:

The Manager of Power Systems Design Engineering team will have excellent communication skills planning skills technical expertise is a team player possesses broad managerial/technical leadership skills and critical problem solving and trouble shooting skills is a selfstarter and is well organized. They will be market savvy and comfortable in a multitasking environment.

KeyResponsibilities:

The Manager of Board Design/Electrical Engineering will be responsible for developing and leading a team of 510 engineers in a highly focused global engineering team based in Austin Texas. The successful candidate will have a board engineering and power systems development background and work as part of a global team in delivering commercially viable products (silicon to systems) to the marketplace in a timely and costeffective manner.

The manager will lead his team to work with other crossfunctional teams to design and implement a full power delivery network model and validate PDN impedance and droop targets and verify power supply integrity using lab and insitu silicon measurements. The candidate is expected to work and guide the systems design team to provide optimum component selection and detailed layout guidelines during the design phase. In addition the candidate is expected to work with the Board Validation team to develop test plans/procedures to perform systemlevel validation for characterizing design margins on the power domains. Other responsibilities include:

1. Work with SoC and System Architects and external industry to drive the latest power delivery technologies and innovations for computers and electronics industry
2. Analyze and compare solutions and then drive team insights and architecture forward into system implementation SoC silicon and power delivery silicon.
3. Conduct feasibility studies and work with development teams to deliver solutions.

The Manager will manage work assignments and coordinate results crossfunctionally and globally responsible for building and motivating a highperformance team as well as developing key relationships with OEM/ODM customers. In addition at a technical level the person will be able to direct technical work within the team as well as mentor and develop employees within the team. The position includes focusing on the technology development and productization of new product architectures and features packaging technologies and power regulation solutions at a board and system level for AMDs products. This role requires considerable use of initiative and independent judgment. This role will also be a key person representing the team and its activities in program and platform core teams.

The selected candidate will have the ability to influence and effectively communicate their vision throughout the organization. They will be a driver of continuous improvement and new ways of thinking by promoting new ideas/perspectives around power design architectures and product definition.

Qualifications:

• Proven technical understanding of power supply architectures and PDN in server OAM and PCIe environments
• Understanding and experience with multiphase buck/buckboost regulators digital PWM controllers bus converters LDOsPMICs charge pumps ADCs & DACs etc
• Working knowledge of 2D/2.5D EM simulation tools such as Sigritys PowerDC PowerSI SiWave or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of high frequency magnetics design for power electronics
• Printed circuit board design experience is a must
• Expertise in schematic capture PCB design tools such as OrCAD or Allegro
• Ability to work with multiple cross functional teams to make the right tradeoffs on system level performance
• Excellent knowledge of control theory closed loop compensation stability analysis phase margin etc.
• Proficiency with lab equipment such as oscilloscope eload function generator etc.
• Experience with analog circuit modeling and simulation tools (e.g. Simplis PSpice HSpice etc. required
• Must have good written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of AMDs SVIx power management interface

Education and Experience:

The Manager of Power Systems Design Engineering must have demonstrated the ability to be a constant force for innovation and improvement throughout their career. The successful candidate must have experience leading seniorlevel engineers and will play a pivotal role in empowering and strengthening the core values of this team. Our selected candidate will use his/her proven leadership and architecture skills to ensure the engineering team continuously innovates uses best practices and adds value for its customers.

Critical Experiences & Competencies for Success:

• Management/technical Leadership Experience At least ten years 10 of progressive management or technical subject matter leadership experience in a large fast paced environment.Otherexperiences should include demonstrated accomplishments in growing mentoring junior engineers providing technical and career guidance and ultimately building fully functional leadership teams. Project management of multiple technically diverse programs in parallel is required.
• Technical Experience Solid understanding of board design including knowledge of power regulation technologies especially multiphase solutions for high power products; high speed signaling interfaces such as PCIe Gen4/Gen5; PCB technology layout and stackups; design for cost and for manufacturing; power and signal integrity; industry standard bus topologies such as I2C SMBUS and PMBUS; Cadence design tool experience (Concept Capture Allegro); and common lab equipment such as hardware tools digital oscilloscopes and other common hardware equipment.
• Business Acumen AMDs business is a challenging mix of leadingedge technology and extremely competitive business conditions. This person will have the business intellect and aptitude needed to facilitate making difficult resource and program decisions that properly balance the business potential and technical challenges.
• Strategic Thinking The decisions made by this position will have long term impact on the capability and competitiveness of the organization. As a result this person must be skilled at defining and implementing strategies in a dynamic hightech business environment that involves significant uncertainty difficult competition and potential for new entrants.
• Teamwork Effective collaboration with the entire company operations vendors and external partners is particularly critical for success. Leading by example and instilling effective teamwork throughout the organization is imperative.

Academic Credentials:

• B.S is required M.S preferred

Location:

Austin Texas

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Requisition Number:184294
Country:United StatesState:TexasCity:Austin
Job Function:Design

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