Technical Director - Data Center Solutions Architecture

$111,000 - $191,000/Yr

AMD - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Austin, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Technical Director - Data Center Solutions Architecture at AMD is responsible for setting and driving the vision and technical requirements for the Data Center Solutions Group. This role involves leading a team of solutions architects to design and implement advanced data center solutions, collaborating with various stakeholders to influence AMD's SOC roadmap and ensure alignment with market needs.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Broad and deep system technology background.
• Experience developing, influencing, and collaborating on strategy.
• Ability to translate workload/application trends to system and SOC implications across the entire HW and SW stack.
• Ability to translate highly technical concepts into actionable plans.
• Ability to drive hands-on proof of concepts to collect data and facts.
• Exceptional communication skills to address multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Skill in analyzing tradeoffs and making analytical, fact-based recommendations with substantial technical, business, and financial impacts.
• Ability to guide product definition using credible insights from interactions with end customers, ISVs/IHVs, and strategic partners.
• Ability to build relationships with strategic customers and partners.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in modern application development and profiling.
• Familiarity with AI, HPC, HCI, Big data, Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS.
• Knowledge of K8S, Cloud native, AI frameworks, HPC stacks, OpenSource.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages, scripting, tools, compilers.
• Experience with operating systems, device drivers, virtualization.
• Experience leading and building a technical team.

Benefits

• Base pay dependent on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Eligibility for annual bonuses or sales incentives.
• Opportunity to own shares of AMD stock through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounts.
• Competitive benefits package.