Competitive Architect for Custom Silicon & AI

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks a Principal Competitive Architect Specialist to lead competitive intelligence and perform hands-on performance analysis for custom silicon used in AI and data center computing. You will craft a fact-based view of accelerators, platforms, and pricing, guiding product leaders.

You will design benchmarks and evaluate real-world performance in cloud environments, shaping strategy, roadmaps, and investment decisions across AMD''s data center portfolio.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in competitive analysis, product strategy, product management, performance engineering, or a related role in semiconductors, cloud computing, AI infrastructure, or data center systems.
• Deep understanding of processors, AI accelerators, custom silicon, system architecture, software stacks, and cloud deployment models.
• Hands-on experience evaluating hardware or software performance in cloud environments, including benchmark design, data collection, and results interpretation.
• Ability to analyze product capabilities, performance, pricing, and market dynamics using incomplete or rapidly changing information.
• Ability to create concise, executive-ready narratives that connect technical findings to product, pricing, roadmap, and investment decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and business organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive competitive assessments, including feature matrices, product comparisons, pricing analyses, and market landscape reviews.
• Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, funding activity, and go-to-market motions.
• Synthesize technical, commercial, and market information into a clear view of competitor strategy, strengths, gaps, and direction.
• Maintain a current competitive landscape for custom silicon across hyperscalers, cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, and other market participants.
• Evaluate competitive performance hands-on using publicly available cloud instances; design and run repeatable benchmarks.
• Translate results into executive-ready insights that influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, and investment decisions.

Skills

Competitive analysis

Product strategy

Performance engineering

Benchmark design

Cloud computing

Semiconductors

Education

BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Benchmarking tools

Cloud provisioning

Scripting

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks a Principal Competitive Architect Specialist to lead competitive intelligence and perform hands-on performance analysis for custom silicon used in AI and data center computing. You will craft a fact-based view of accelerators, platforms, and pricing, guiding product leaders.

You will design benchmarks and evaluate real-world performance in cloud environments, shaping strategy, roadmaps, and investment decisions across AMD''s data center portfolio.