Sr. Program Manager - Embedded Technologies

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.
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The Team
The AECG x86 Embedded Team builds and optimizes x86 platforms for embedded and commercial applications, working across silicon, firmware, and software to deliver reliable, high‑performance solutions at scale.
The Role
The Hardware Program Manager is responsible for leading complex hardware development programs within AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group (AECG). This role ensures successful execution of hardware projects from concept through production, driving alignment across engineering, operations, and business teams to meet schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
The Person
As a Program Manager you will partner with our cross functional teams to ensures successful execution of hardware projects from concept through production, driving alignment across engineering, operations, and business teams to meet schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
Key Responsibilities

• Defines, plans and drives projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance
• Possesses a thorough knowledge of the principles of project management and can apply them effectively on small to large size projects
• Has responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
• Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiency
• Creates and maintains project management artifacts such as schedule, resource and resource forecast, risk and issues logs
• Provides unique views of project status updates and facilitates cross development team dependencies and communications
• Identify action or mitigation plans for issues or risks that arise during the project lifecycle
• Collaborates with core teams and execution teams to identify areas that require special attention or escalations to identify corrective actions
• Collect, analyze, organize and publish work performance data via dashboards and recurring status reports

Preferred Experience

• Detailed oriented, self-driven with a strong sense of pride and ownership.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively as a self-starter and as part of a team
• Proactively involve team members in planning, decision-making and execution efforts
• People management experience is desirable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to handle all levels of interaction, including executive level
• Horizontal leadership/Matrix management experience
• Technical program management
• Collaborate in problem solving and mitigating risks with Engineering, Program/Project Management, Business Units and Product Management
• Strong knowledge of productivity and project tools including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering
• 7+ years of experience in hardware program management with SW culture.

LOCATION:
Markham, ON or Remote
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*This posting is for an existing vacancy.*