[Hiring] Storage and Memory Systems Architect @Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Role Description

AMD is searching for an experienced systems architect to set and drive future vision and technical requirements for memory, storage, and data infrastructure within AMD's Datacenter Solutions Group (DSG). This individual will join a team of seasoned system engineers spanning hardware and software, from node level to rack level design, AI training, inference, and agentic compute, from BIOS and security to cloud-native computing, from memory technologies to high performance fabrics, and more. The DSG Platform Architecture and Strategy team’s goal is to drive our technical strategy to inform and influence AMD’s Enterprise products, optimized for the vision of the future, via collaboration with internal stakeholders, customers, end users, and strategic partners.

Qualifications

• Broad and deep system technology backgrounds.
• Experience developing, influencing, and collaborating on strategy.
• Ability to translate workload/application trends to system architecture and SOC implications across the entire HW and SW stack.
• Ability to translate highly technical concepts into actionable plans.
• Exceptional communication skills to address multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Comfortable presenting high level technology, roadmap, and strategy to customers or industry consortiums.
• Skill in analyzing tradeoffs and making analytical, fact-based recommendations.
• Ability to guide product definition by synthesizing insights from end customers, ISVs/IHVs, and strategic partners.
• Ability to build relationships with strategic customers and partners.
• Collaboration skills to engage a team of engineering, product management and business development professionals.

Requirements

• Work with OEMs, end customers, ISV/IHV partners to understand workload and use case plans that facilitate joint roadmap definition.
• Partner with engineering to help drive reference platform requirements.
• Partner with SoC design teams and product management in providing a unified and clear platform/system level vision to influence AMD’s SoC roadmap.
• Drive workload and application-level strategies internally and with industry partners/ecosystem.
• Represent and promote AMD datacenter system-level vision in industry consortiums, events, and strategic partnerships.

Preferred Experience

• Experience as lead architect/engineer for Enterprise level storage platforms/sub-systems for markets such as Cloud, AI, Storage, HPC, Edge, 5G, or Embedded compute platforms.
• Deep understanding of computer architectures based on CPUs.
• x86 experience highly desired; experience with additional CPU architectures a plus.
• Experience developing platforms with high-speed digital design and interconnects.
• Storage & Media experience (i.e. flash, storage-class memory, RAID, SSDs, DDR, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVM programming).
• Understanding of dataflow and memory tiering concepts.
• Extensive knowledge of storage protocols and architectures.
• Networking & IO experience (i.e. Ethernet, Infiniband, SmartNics, scale-up and scale-out fabrics, NVMe-oF, PCIe, CXL, UCIe, etc.).

Academic Credentials

• BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• 10 or more years of applicable experience.

Location

• Team based out of Austin, Texas.
• Remote candidates will be considered.
• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance.