AI Safety Business Development Manager

Company:

AMD Location:

Santa Clara, CA Career Level:

Mid-Senior Level Industries:

Technology, Software, IT, Electronics Description

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. Together, we advance your career.

THE ROLE

The Business Development Senior Manager entails responsibilities for working with ODM(s) to develop business and marketing strategies that compliment AMD's initiatives; as well as enabling product development in building AMD's enterprise platform ecosystem. Candidate will evangelize AMD technology, create, and track marketing programs success and enable ODMs sale teams through training. In this highly collaborative role, you will work with engineering, product marketing, finance, legal and executive teams.

THE PERSON

We are seeking a Trustworthy AI, Safety Architect to lead safe AI innovation across global markets. This is a hybrid role blending AI governance, technical safety, hardware-based trust, and strategic ecosystem engagement. You will shape how governments, enterprises, and partners deploy open, safe, and sovereign AI on AMD solutions, across AMD's broad AI Infrastructure portfolio (incl.

GPU, CPU, AI

PCs, FPGAs). Ensuring Responsible and Trustworthy AI from cloud-scale systems all the way to the edge. Your work will define how the world adopts open, safe and trustworthy AI with AMD hardware and software solutions powering secure, resilient, and sovereign AI ecosystems across nations and industries.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

AI Safety & Governance Lead global Trustworthy AI strategy aligned with

ISO/IEC 42001, NIST RMF, EU AI

Act. Design and implement AI safety guardrails, dialogue governance, jailbreak defense, content moderation, and accuracy assurance pipelines. Drive program management for safe-by-design development across hardware, software, and model teams. AI Agentic Risk Governance Hardware-Based Integrity & Provenance Translate silicon-level trust features—attestation, secure enclaves, TPM, measured boot, watermarking, provenance metadata—into differentiated safety solutions for global partners. Define "trusted inference mode" by integrating hardware signals with software guardrails. Strategic Partnership & Ecosystem Leadership Build research and policy collaborations with universities, governments, AAAI, standards bodies, NGOs, and industry alliances. Represent the organization in global forums, conferences, and executive briefings. Architect safe AI deployment patterns for national AI strategies, enterprise rollouts, and sovereign AI initiatives.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Technical Competencies Expertise in SLMs/LLMs, transformer architectures, inference optimization, and on-device AI. Strong engineering background in Python, C/C++, or Rust. Experience with safety tuning, RLHF/RLAIF, policy enforcement layers, and red-teaming. Understanding of provenance, trusted compute, and security architectures. Governance & Program Leadership Strong command of AI risk frameworks and global regulatory landscape. Ability to convert governance requirements into technical controls and partner-ready solutions. Demonstrated cross-functional leadership across hardware, software, policy, and research teams.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering preferred. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. #LI-TB1 #LI-Hybrid Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance. AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD's "Responsible AI Policy" is available here. This posting is for an existing vacancy.