Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Technical Program Manager, AI Research Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $140K — $170K *
Santa Clara, CA 95051In-Person
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5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering Program Management within software or AI/ML environments.
  • Strong technical understanding of AI/ML systems and software engineering principles.
  • Ability to manage multiple complex projects with changing requirements.
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging with engineers and executives alike.
  • Proficient in program planning, risk management, and milestone tracking.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage cross-functional AI/ML engineering programs with clear milestones and resource allocation.
  • Translate complex technical goals into structured actionable plans and metrics.
  • Facilitate alignment among diverse teams on project priorities and scope.
  • Implement tracking mechanisms for project milestones and communicate status at an executive level.
  • Coordinate AI workflows, including benchmarking and automation efforts.
  • Ensure successful delivery of projects via process improvements and technical roadmaps.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and hybrid work options.
  • Comprehensive health care benefits, including mental health programs.
  • Retirement plan options with company matching contributions.
  • Employee assistance programs with various offerings.
  • Professional development opportunities and tuition assistance.
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive execution across AI Research Engineering, Applied AI, ML Systems, and AI/ML Platform teams. This role will coordinate programs spanning AI/ML workflows, reinforcement learning, inference, evaluation infrastructure, agentic/recursive self-improvement systems, and shared platforms supporting hardware and software optimization, verification, simulation, and performance engineering.

THE PERSON:

This is a hands-on TPM role for someone who can translate complex technical strategy into clear execution plans and work credibly with ML engineers, AI engineers, platform engineers, research scientists, and hardware/software domain experts.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Lead planning and execution of complex, cross-functional AI/ML and engineering programs, including milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and critical paths.
  • Translate ambiguous technical goals into structured plans, workstreams, success metrics, and acceptance criteria.
  • Align engineering, research, platform, and hardware/software teams on priorities, scope, and delivery.
  • Establish execution rhythms, track milestones and blockers, and provide clear executive-level status reporting.
  • Coordinate platform and AI workflow initiatives involving benchmarking, evaluation, experiment tracking, distributed training/inference, and automation.
  • Track measurable outcomes such as performance, correctness, regression rates, adoption, experiment throughput, and infrastructure utilization.
  • Drive pilot and production readiness, including rollout plans, documentation, support, and retrospectives.
  • Identify recurring delivery bottlenecks and drive improvements to processes, staffing, and technical roadmaps.

Technical Focus
  • AI/ML systems, agentic AI, RL, inference, and evaluation
  • Distributed ML infrastructure and GPU platforms
  • AI-driven engineering workflows and automation
  • Hardware/software optimization, RTL, verification, simulation, firmware, compilers, and performance engineering
  • Moving research prototypes into reliable, production-oriented engineering systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Strong experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or equivalent within complex software, AI/ML, or engineering environments.
  • Strong technical fluency in AI/ML systems, software engineering, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple complex workstreams with ambiguous requirements and shifting priorities.
  • Excellent communication skills with engineers, researchers, technical leaders, and executives.
  • Strong skills in program planning, dependency management, risk management, milestone tracking, and executive-level status reporting.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience with AI/ML, ML systems, developer platforms, or internal AI tooling.
  • Familiarity with GPU computing, CUDA/ROCm/HIP, distributed training/inference, Kubernetes, Ray, or Slurm.
  • Experience in semiconductor, EDA, verification, firmware, compilers, or HPC.
  • Experience with agent frameworks, LLM tool use, benchmark automation, experiment tracking, or evaluation platforms.
  • Experience bridging research prototypes and production engineering systems.
  • Experience operating in matrixed, cross-functional organizations.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA

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Learn more about Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
Size
15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
NASDAQ
AMD
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