This role leads supplier quality for key components used in AMD products, managing quality from concept through end-of-life. Responsibilities include driving supplier issue resolution, ensuring component specification compliance, and conducting manufacturing readiness reviews. The position requires extensive experience in manufacturing and quality control, with a focus on supplier-facing responsibilities and project management.
THE ROLE:
AMD is seeking a candidate with subject matter expertise to join our Component Quality & Reliability team, driving component quality from concept to end of life to ensure a differentiated experience, de-risk AMD product quality, and build customer confidence. The successful candidate will be accountable for key components used on AMD products. This is a high-visibility role with interfaces across suppliers, engineering, sourcing, global operations, quality leadership, and AMD business units.
THE PERSON:
You are highly organized, able to prioritize and manage multiple workstreams to tight deadlines. You are a self-starter with a positive attitude and a strong desire to succeed. You bring strong communication and project management skills, with the ability to build relationships and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within a global matrix organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead the supplier interface for key component suppliers across all AMD business units.
- Issue Management: Lead and drive resolution of supplier quality and reliability excursions, serving as the primary interface with suppliers to drive root cause, containment, and corrective actions as needed.
- Component Spec Management: With cross-functional team input, develop and drive supplier compliance with AMD component specification requirements, as applicable by commodity, including de-rating, electrical specifications, APQP, reliability, and outgoing DPPM quality, by production release target dates.
- MP Readiness Review Lead: Lead mass production readiness reviews of key supplier manufacturing facilities, participating in on-site factory audits as needed.
- Define Component KPIs: Define KPIs that suppliers must deliver through development into MP readiness, and measure and improve outgoing supplier quality control through component end of life.
- DFM (Design for Manufacturability) Compliance: Ensure alignment between design and operations (ASIC Package and Board Operations/Engineering) to confirm supplier manufacturing tolerances meet AMD DFM requirements.
- Partner with suppliers, the AMD Sourcing Council, Component and Board Design teams, Silicon & Package Reliability teams, Engineering leadership, Global Operations and Quality leadership, and AMD business units.
- Travel internationally to supplier sites approximately 25% of the time.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Extensive experience in manufacturing and quality control with any of the following: mechanical enclosures, discrete semiconductors, multi-chip modules, memory, power modules, or board products.
- Experience developing process quality plans, conducting supplier quality audits, and driving 8D root cause and corrective actions, reliability testing, Six Sigma, and failure analysis.
- Supplier-facing experience with the ability to network, build relationships, and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization.
- Hands-on experience with process capability analysis, measurement system analysis (GRR, ARR), cross-cavity checks, and process qualifications.
- Strong project management experience within a global matrix organization.
- Experience working with international OEMs and contract manufacturers.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar field.
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