Datacenter Solutions Architect — Field FAE (Hyperscale)

AMD; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a Field Applications Engineer to support Google as a strategic hyperscale customer in the San Jose, California area. This mid-level role (≈5 years of experience) focuses on customer-facing technical engagement and deepening expertise in AMD server platforms and architecture.

You will collaborate with FAEs, sales, and engineering teams to drive AMD datacenter technology adoption from evaluation through production.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in systems engineering, hardware enablement, platform validation, or related technical roles.
• Foundational knowledge of server architectures, including CPUs, memory subsystems, and I/O.
• Working knowledge of Linux-based operating systems and common debugging tools.
• Exposure to server bring-up, validation, performance testing, or customer support environments.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support Google engineering teams with evaluation and deployment of AMD server platforms.
• Assist with platform bring-up, validation, and debug across CPU, memory, PCIe/CXL, BIOS/UEFI, and Linux OS.
• Execute hands-on debugging and issue triage in collaboration with senior FAEs and AMD engineering teams.
• Support performance analysis, benchmarking, and workload characterization for compute, memory, and I/O.
• Contribute to customer-facing documentation, technical presentations, and test reports.
• Track technical issues, action items, and deliverables across customer engagements.
• Provide technical support to sales activities aligned with account objectives.
• Capture customer feedback and relay findings to AMD product, platform, and engineering teams.

Skills

System-level expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Effective communication

Problem-solving

Learning mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Linux

GDB/Debug tools

PCIe/CXL knowledge

Job description

AMD is seeking a Field Applications Engineer to support Google as a strategic hyperscale customer in the San Jose, California area. This mid-level role (≈5 years of experience) focuses on customer-facing technical engagement and deepening expertise in AMD server platforms and architecture.

You will collaborate with FAEs, sales, and engineering teams to drive AMD datacenter technology adoption from evaluation through production.