Technical Program Manager — AI/ML & Hardware Systems

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive execution across AI/Research and ML platforms, coordinating programs spanning AI/ML workflows, reinforcement learning, and hardware/software optimization.

You will translate complex technical goals into clear plans, align cross-functional teams, and track milestones, risks, and outcomes while moving research prototypes toward production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex software/AI/engineering programs.
• Technical fluency in AI/ML systems and distributed systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into structured execution plans and milestones.
• Excellent communication with engineers, researchers, technical leaders, and executives.
• Strong skills in program planning, dependency management, risk management, milestone tracking, and executive-level status reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of complex, cross-functional AI/ML and engineering programs, including milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and critical paths.
• Translate ambiguous technical goals into structured plans, workstreams, success metrics, and acceptance criteria.
• Align engineering, research, platform, and hardware/software teams on priorities, scope, and delivery.
• Establish execution rhythms, track milestones and blockers, and provide clear executive-level status reporting.
• Coordinate platform and AI workflow initiatives involving benchmarking, evaluation, experiment tracking, distributed training/inference, and automation.
• Track measurable outcomes such as performance, correctness, regression rates, adoption, experiment throughput, and infrastructure utilization.
• Drive pilot and production readiness, including rollout plans, documentation, support, and retrospectives.
• Identify recurring delivery bottlenecks and drive improvements to processes, staffing, and technical roadmaps.

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive execution across AI/Research and ML platforms, coordinating programs spanning AI/ML workflows, reinforcement learning, and hardware/software optimization.

You will translate complex technical goals into clear plans, align cross-functional teams, and track milestones, risks, and outcomes while moving research prototypes toward production-ready systems.