Senior Rack‑Level Server Validation TPM

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD’s Data Center Platform Engineering Group seeks a Validation Technical Program Manager to lead end-to-end rack-level server validation across board, system, and rack levels. You’ll define validation plans, coordinate across engineering teams, and drive root-cause analysis to ensure readiness for milestones.

You will manage schedules, write validation documentation, and participate in internal and customer-facing meetings while supporting hardware validation and automation improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience managing technical programs or workstreams across cross-functional teams.
• Plan, track, and execute programs against defined requirements, schedules, and milestones.
• Proficiency in program management fundamentals including scope, schedule, risk, and status reporting.
• Ability to coordinate execution across engineering, validation, and partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Own server platform validation execution across board, system, and rack levels.
• Define and drive comprehensive validation test plans covering electrical, power, mechanical, thermal, shock & vibration, compliance, reliability, firmware, and system integration domains.
• Coordinate validation activities with architecture, mechanical, platform, firmware, and system engineering teams.
• Develop test specifications, requirements, and methodologies for electrical, firmware, and platform-level validation.
• Manage validation schedules, requirement tracking, and execution progress.
• Lead triage and debug activities, driving root-cause analysis and issue resolution.
• Prepare and maintain validation documentation, including test summaries and milestone readiness inputs.
• Represent validation in internal and customer-facing program meetings.
• Support Internal Server R&D hardware validation efforts.
• Contribute to validation automation efforts to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Demonstrate defect management and issue tracking capabilities.
• Proficient with Jira for defect tracking, workflow management, dashboards, burndown reporting.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Program management

Test planning

Root cause analysis

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, System Engineering or Computer Application

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, System Engineering or Computer Application

PMP / Scrum Master

Tools

Jira

Azure

MS Project

Visio

Dashboards

Spreadsheets

Job description

AMD’s Data Center Platform Engineering Group seeks a Validation Technical Program Manager to lead end-to-end rack-level server validation across board, system, and rack levels. You’ll define validation plans, coordinate across engineering teams, and drive root-cause analysis to ensure readiness for milestones.

You will manage schedules, write validation documentation, and participate in internal and customer-facing meetings while supporting hardware validation and automation improvements.