Platform AI Security Architect

Advanced Micro Devices; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices in the United States is seeking an AI Systems Security Architect to join the Product Security Office. You will define architectures that secure AI workloads across hardware, firmware, and software in data center environments, leading security features from root of trust to attestation.

Strong collaboration across teams is essential, with deep expertise in platform security and secure boot.

Qualifications

• Multiple years' experience in platform security architecture.
• Deep understanding of CPU, accelerator, and SoC systems, memory hierarchy, DMA, I/O, and datacenter interconnects (PCIe, CXL) and their security features.
• Experience with confidential computing and trusted execution environments, including memory encryption and VM isolation.
• Expertise in root of trust, secure boot, measured boot, and boot chain architecture, including attestation concepts (DICE, SPDM, TPM/TCG).
• Experience with firmware security, including runtime integrity, anti-rollback, secure update, and recovery design.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive platform-wide security architecture across silicon, firmware, and software for AI and datacenter systems, including trust boundaries.
• Drive the platform attestation architecture, including root of trust, measured boot, reference measurements, and remote verification.
• Help drive system-wide threat modeling and security analysis across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Contribute to secure debug architecture and protect debug, test, and diagnostic interfaces on production systems.
• Write system architecture specifications for platform security features.
• Drive security assessment and audit readiness and close findings into the architecture.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tooling to accelerate security analysis, review, and documentation.

Skills

C/C++ proficiency

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Platform security

Cross-organization influence

Communication skills

Assembly reading

GPU/accelerator security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

JTAG

Caliptra

OpenBMC

coreboot

EDK II

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices in the United States is seeking an AI Systems Security Architect to join the Product Security Office. You will define architectures that secure AI workloads across hardware, firmware, and software in data center environments, leading security features from root of trust to attestation.

Strong collaboration across teams is essential, with deep expertise in platform security and secure boot.