Jaya Jagadish
Corporate Vice President, Design Engineering - AMD
Jaya joined AMD as a Design Engineer, right after her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas. AMD works in the niche semi-conductor space and very few women take up a career in hardware engineering but Jaya was passionate about building and designing products and knew from the start, that this was her calling. After a short stint at Mentor Graphics and Analog Devices, Jaya returned to AMD and was part of the founding team that set up the company in India in 2005. Â
One of the high points of her career has been to build a high performing engineering team at AMD India - grounds-up. When Jaya first joined AMD, there was limited talent in the CPU design space. AMD hired fresh graduates and trained them internally to build the talent pipeline. Today Jaya leads 400+ engineers as part of the silicon design team and it plays a critical role in driving AMD’s product roadmap. In addition, as India site lead, Jaya works with the leadership team in the country to drive cutting edge innovation to fuel AMD’s global growth.
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