Platform System Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a Lead/Principal Systems Design Engineer to drive platform architecture and subsystem integration across client, workstation, and server lines. You will lead design tradeoffs, validation planning, and bring-up from silicon to system-level deployment.

The role requires deep expertise in chipsets, firmware interactions, and high-speed I/O interfaces. You will collaborate across teams and with ecosystem partners to ensure successful certification and market

Qualifications

• Experience defining platform requirements and system-level architecture for client, workstation, or server products.
• Regulatory, environmental, interoperability, and industry certification requirements knowledge.
• Ability to produce customer-facing design guidance and technical documentation.
• Extensive board/platform bring-up, debugging, validation, and optimization experience.
• Understanding of power delivery architectures, security, and platform manageability.
• Collaboration with OEMs, ODMs, component suppliers, and ecosystem partners.
• Proficiency with lab equipment and protocol analysis for system bring-up.
• Programming in C/C++, Python, Perl, or Ruby; strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive platform architecture and requirements for chipset and I/O subsystems, aligning with regulatory and environmental standards.
• Lead evaluations, design tradeoffs, validation planning, bring-up, and debugging across subsystems.
• Collaborate with silicon, firmware, BIOS, validation, compliance, and ecosystem teams for integration and certification readiness.
• Work with OEMs, ODMs, board vendors, and ecosystem partners to drive adoption and successful deployment of AMD technologies.

Skills

Chipset architecture

Firmware interfaces

High-speed I/O

Power delivery

Thermal analysis

C/C++/Python

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Protocol analyzers

Logic analyzers

Oscilloscopes

Power analyzers

Signal integrity tools

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Principal Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD’s ability to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

THE PERSON:

As a leader in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high-visibility position, your systems engineering expertise will be essential to product architecture, platform definition, chipset, firmware and I/O subsystem integration, regulatory and environmental compliance planning, validation strategy, and root-cause resolution. You will work across silicon, firmware, hardware, compliance, and ecosystem teams to ensure successful deployment of complex client, workstation, and server platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define and drive platform architecture and requirements for chipset and I/O subsystems, including PCIe®, USB4®, USB, SATA, networking, storage, security, and manageability features, while ensuring alignment with regulatory, environmental, energy-efficiency, and sustainability requirements.
• Lead technical evaluations, design tradeoff analysis, validation planning, bring-up, and debug activities across chipset, I/O, firmware, power delivery, thermal, and system-level subsystems throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with silicon, chipset, firmware, BIOS, validation, compliance, and ecosystem teams to ensure successful platform integration, feature delivery, certification readiness, and adherence to industry and environmental standards.
• Work with OEMs, ODMs, board vendors, and ecosystem partners to drive adoption, integration, and successful deployment of AMD platform technologies.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience defining platform requirements and system-level architecture for client, workstation, or server products, with strong knowledge of chipset technologies, platform controllers, firmware interactions, high-speed I/O interfaces (PCIe®, USB4®, USB, DisplayPort™, SATA, Ethernet, SPI/eSPI, I2C/I3C, SMBus), and system-level feature integration.
• Experience with regulatory, environmental, interoperability, industry certification requirements, and associated standards, translating compliance and sustainability objectives into platform architecture and validation strategies while collaborating with ecosystem partners to achieve certification and market readiness.
• Experience developing customer-facing design guidance and technical documentation.
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, platform design, validation methodologies, technical debug, and root-cause analysis across client, workstation, server, and mobile computing platforms.
• Understanding of power delivery architectures, platform security technologies, manageability solutions, and board-level design considerations.
• Experience collaborating with OEMs, ODMs, component suppliers, and strategic industry partners to define platform requirements, enable new technologies, and resolve technical integration challenges.
• Extensive experience with board and platform bring-up, debug, validation, and optimization using industry-standard lab equipment, including protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, power analyzers, and signal integrity tools.
• Programming/scripting skills (e.g., C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives to completion.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.