Technical Team Lead, Hardware Security Platform (PMTS)

Are you currently in Gdansk or ready to relocate?

Project Description:

AMD is building a hardware-assisted security platform that uses silicon-level Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs) and on-chip machine learning to detect advanced endpoint threats (ransomware, fileless malware, cryptojacking) at the processor layer, below OS-based evasion, on a Windows 11 endpoint platform.

The platform collects CPU behavioral telemetry, classifies it via an ML inference engine, and exposes threat signals to security-software partners through a standardized API. The team covers the full stack: silicon telemetry, ML training/validation, real-time inference, and lab qualification.

Responsibilities:

- Own the technical architecture for the full hardware threat-detection platform (PMU/IBS kernel driver, ML inference pipeline, partner SDK, HW attestation).

- Set and enforce technical quality standards: detection-efficacy KPIs (detection rate, false-positive rate), performance budgets (CPU overhead), API backward-compatibility.

- Lead cross-functional architectural decisions across silicon, driver, ML and real-time pipeline.

- Own the partner SDK strategy and the technical relationship with security-software integration partners.

- Lead efficacy validation gates across the malware variant test suite.

Mentor SMTS-level engineers across lab, ML, and real-time workstreams.

- Represent the platform in external technical forums and partner engagements.

- Identify and mitigate program-level technical risks.

Mandatory Skills Description:

- 8-10 years progressive engineering experience with 5+ years in a technical leadership or principal engineering role.

- Deep, hands-on expertise in at least two of the four technical areas below, with working literacy across all four:

- CPU / Platform — CPU microarchitecture, performance monitoring units (PMU), AMD µProf or Intel VTune, UEFI/BIOS

- Systems / Kernel — Windows kernel-mode driver development (WDF/WDM), WinDbg; WHQL/HLK certification experience strongly preferred

- Endpoint Security — endpoint security platform architecture, EDR, threat detection, malware behavior analysis

- ML Systems — ML inference pipeline engineering, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, NPU/GPU inference

- Experience leading multi-disciplinary efforts inception-to-production.

- Excellent communication across executive, partner and engineering audiences.

- Experience defining program-level KPIs and quality gates.

- Must be based in or willing to relocate to Gdańsk, Poland.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Hardware-assisted security technology on any major processor architecture.

- Endpoint security research, malware analysis or threat intelligence at enterprise scale.

- AMD silicon or AMD security processor technology.

- Familiarity with malware handling, containment, or sample-safety protocols (this role oversees a workstream operating on live malware in an isolated lab).

- Patent portfolio or publications in hardware security or ML for security.

- Experience managing external security-software partner technical programs (joint engineering, certification, go-to-market).

Languages:

English: B2 Upper Intermediate