Sr. Product Security Incident Response Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 9 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
AMD is seeking an experienced software engineer responsible for triaging incoming issues, managing vulnerabilities through analysis, remediation, and disclosure, and engaging with engineering teams, researchers, and partners, with a focus on AI infrastructure and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Analyze security vulnerabilities and define remediation strategies; assess, identify, and communicate risks to internal stakeholders.
- Communicate with customers and security researchers, and work cross-functionally to drive resolution of security issues.
- Support Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) by negotiating with researchers and partners.
- Develop and manage a feedback loop to engineering teams to drive continual improvement in product security posture.
- Develop and implement a threat intelligence program.
What you'll need
- Experience in platform security and/or device security microarchitecture and/or CPU, GPU, SOC, or hardware security-oriented definition.
- Grasp of computer architecture, CPU and GPU/accelerator design, memory hierarchy and caches, and underlying hardware/firmware, including existing architectures (x86, ARM, and/or GPU/accelerator) and their security/virtualization extensions.
- Experience securing AI/ML workloads and GPU/accelerator stacks (e.g., ROCm) and their security requirements at datacenter scale.
- Familiarity with software/hardware interfaces and driver techniques.
- Proficient in C/C++, Rust, and Python, with understanding of assembly instruction sets (AMD64 or ARM).
- Experience designing and/or implementing secure systems—threat modeling, security architecture, protocol design, network security, and OS security.
- Familiarity with PC Client / Data Center / IoT interconnect standards and protocols: PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, RDMA, SPI, I2C/I3C, and USB.
- Grasp of security principles—confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, authorization, and auditing—plus cryptographic algorithms.
- Development experience with micro-kernels and/or real-time OSes.
- Familiarity with OS and virtualization tech—especially Linux kernel/driver development, hypervisors/VMs, and containers; SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and Kubernetes a plus.
- Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development tooling in real engineering work.
Nice to have
- A degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related subjects.
Skills: Product Security Incident Response, security vulnerabilities, platform security, device security microarchitecture, hardware/firmware security, AI/ML workloads security
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 58-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
184
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (184 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 184 |
| Median days open | 55 d | 58 d (−3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: Product Security Incident Response, security vulnerabilities, platform security, device security microarchitecture, hardware/firmware security, AI/ML workloads security
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 27 open roles · median 33 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 105 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 119 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 99 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 17 d
- AMD (this employer) · 9 open roles · median 41 d
How we counted: 184 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.