Security Firmware Architect
Core
Define and drive security firmware architecture for AMD's confidential computing technologies (SEV-SNP) across product portfolios, working at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and software to protect customer workloads and AI models.
Role type
Senior IC security firmware architect
Builds
Confidential computing and virtualization security features for AMD processors
Domain
Semiconductor hardware security and confidential computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Security firmware architecture, confidential computing (SEV-SNP), threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, architecture specifications, hardware-rooted trust, attestation, isolation, C/C++, assembly (AMD64/ARM), secure boot, root of trust, secure firmware updates, cryptographic algorithms, key management, interconnect standards (PCIe, CXL), Linux kernel/driver development, hypervisors, containers, GPU/NPU virtualization
Preferred skills
System-level security architecture ownership, CPU confidential computing (Intel TDX, ARM CCA), SoC composition (CPU/GPU/NPU, memory hierarchy, DMA, I/O), x86/ARM security extensions, hardware security modules, AI-assisted engineering tooling, agentic AI security, security vulnerability handling (CVSS scoring, mitigations), on-device AI security considerations
