Senior AI Platform Security Architect

AMD; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking an AI Systems Security Architect to join the Product Security Office to secure platforms that run the world’s AI workloads. You will define and drive architectures that strengthen platform security across hardware, firmware, and software.

You’ll collaborate across teams to implement security features, focusing on root of trust, secure boot, attestation, and defense-in-depth for data-center systems. San Diego preferred, open to other US AMD locations.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform security architecture for AI/data-center workloads.
• Knowledge of CPU, accelerator, and SoC systems, memory hierarchy, PCIe/CXL security.
• Experience with confidential computing and trusted execution environments.
• Expertise in root of trust, secure boot, measured boot, and boot chain architecture, including attestation (DICE, TPM/TCG).
• Experience with firmware security, including runtime integrity and secure updates.
• Experience with threat modeling and security architecture at platform scope.
• Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms, key hierarchies, and hardware/firmware key management.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive platform-wide security architecture across silicon, firmware, and software for AI/datacenter systems.
• 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 debugging architecture and protection of debug, test, and diagnostic interfaces on production systems.
• Write system architecture specifications for platform security features.
• Drive security assessment and audit readiness for AMD platforms, and close findings into the architecture.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tooling to accelerate security analysis, review, and documentation.

Skills

C/C++ proficiency

Reading assembly

AI-assisted tooling

Threat modeling

Platform security architecture

Security architecture ownership

Communication skills

GPU/accelerator knowledge

Firmware security

Supply-chain security

Education

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

Tools

Caliptra

OpenBMC

coreboot

EDK II

openSIL

Job description

AMD is seeking an AI Systems Security Architect to join the Product Security Office to secure platforms that run the world’s AI workloads. You will define and drive architectures that strengthen platform security across hardware, firmware, and software.

You’ll collaborate across teams to implement security features, focusing on root of trust, secure boot, attestation, and defense-in-depth for data-center systems. San Diego preferred, open to other US AMD locations.