Product Quality Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in Austin, Texas is seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer to strengthen reliability of its Server CPUs and Instinct accelerators. You will work hands-on with large manufacturing and test data, transforming them into actionable analytics and production-ready ML models.

This role partners across Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Quality, Yield, Foundry and Operations to deploy scalable reliability methods, drive DPPM reduction, and optimize test time and cost, while clearly

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a technical field preferred; strong theoretical and practical background in reliability and analytics.
• Experience analyzing high-volume manufacturing data; track record of delivering production-ready insights.
• Familiarity with DOE/RSM, time-series analysis, anomaly detection, and ML deployment to production.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for reliability analytics across AMD Server CPU and Instinct product families.
• Partner with foundry tech to model and improve reliability at all stages of development.
• Develop pre-silicon product reliability assessments.
• Define scalable frameworks for reliability modeling and DPPM analytics.
• Collaborate with Product Eng, Test Eng, Yield Eng, Quality, and Operations to prioritize analytics use cases.
• Develop and deploy ML/AI solutions for outlier screening and anomaly detection.
• Perform root-cause analyses of yield loss and DPPM drivers.
• Drive closed-loop corrective actions to improve outgoing quality.
• Build and maintain analytics within the AVA platform for scalable deployment.
• Drive adaptive test, screening, and binning strategies to optimize quality and efficiency.
• Produce technical docs and present findings to cross-functional and exec teams.
• Contribute reusable code and analytics best practices.

Skills

Semiconductor product development

Yield engineering

Test engineering

Data analysis

Statistics

Machine learning

Python

SQL

Communication

Education

Master's or Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math

Tools

Python

SQL

Jupyter

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

As a senior Product Quality Engineer, you will play a critical role in improving quality and reliability of AMD’s industry-leading Server CPUs and Instinct accelerators. This role sits at the intersection of quality and reliability modeling, product engineering, test, yield, and data science. You will work hands-on with massive volumes of manufacturing and test data, transforming them into actionable insights and production-ready analytics and machine-learning solutions.

You will define and deploy scalable methodologies and tools for per-part reliability modeling, outgoing-quality prediction, DPPM (defective parts per million) reduction, early excursion detection, and test-time and cost optimization. This is a highly cross-functional role where you will provide technical direction across Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Quality/Reliability, Yield Engineering, foundry, and Operations teams, influencing decisions from technology development and early ramp through high-volume manufacturing across multiple product families. The ideal candidate enjoys moving from exploration to deployment and communicating results clearly to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

THE PERSON:

You are a curious, analytical problem solver who thrives in complex, data-rich environments. You enjoy uncovering patterns in noisy data and translating them into practical improvements that matter in production. You collaborate naturally across functions, influence without authority, and are comfortable balancing deep technical work with clear communication. You are equally effective working independently or as part of a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team, and you take pride in building robust, reusable solutions that scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Set technical direction for reliability and quality analytics across AMD Server CPU and Instinct product families, establishing scalable methods and influencing product, test, manufacturing, and quality decisions.
• Partner with the foundry technology team to characterize, model, and improve reliability at all stages of technology development.
• Develop pre-silicon product reliability assessments.
• Define and establish scalable methodologies and frameworks for reliability modeling, outgoing-quality prediction, DPPM analytics, screening optimization, and excursion detection, enabling reuse across products and engineering teams.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Yield Engineering, Quality, and Operations to identify, define, and prioritize analytics and machine-learning use cases that materially improve yield, quality, and cost.
• Develop and deploy ML/AI solutions for parametric outlier screening, drift detection, and excursion/anomaly detection across wafer, lot, site, and package dimensions.
• Perform in-depth root-cause analysis of yield loss and DPPM drivers by correlating test, fab, assembly, and design variables; distinguish systemic issues from statistical noise.
• Drive closed-loop corrective action by translating reliability and quality insights into test, screening, process, or product changes and validating that those actions measurably resolve the targeted failure modes and improve outgoing quality.
• Build, productionize, and maintain yield and quality analytics within AMD’s AVA analytics platform, moving models from experimentation to scalable deployment.
• Drive adaptive test, screening, and binning strategies using data-driven insights to optimize product quality and manufacturing efficiency.
• Author clear technical documentation and reports; present findings and recommendations to cross-functional teams and executive audiences.
• Contribute reusable code, analytics frameworks, and best practices that elevate team capability and accelerate future development.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Strong background in semiconductor product development, yield engineering, or test engineering, with hands-on experience analyzing high-volume manufacturing data.
• Solid foundations in statistics and machine learning, including hypothesis testing, DOE/RSM, regression, classification, outlier detection, time-series analysis, and anomaly detection.
• Familiarity with Python and SQL for data analysis and modeling (e.g., pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), general coding experience and demonstrated past ability in related scientific computing work.
• Practical knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing and test flows, including wafer sort and final test, binning strategies, DPPM (defective parts per million) analysis, reliability screens, and excursion management.
• Familiarity with yield analytics ecosystems similar to AMD’s environment; experience with server-class CPUs and/or accelerator/GPU products is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to deploy analytics or ML solutions into production environments, not just develop them in notebooks.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Relevant industry experience, or Master’s or Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, or a related technical discipline is preferred.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

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