Principal AI-Enabled Silicon Software Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Boxborough (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD seeks a Principal Software Architect, AI-Enabled Silicon Development to define architecture for complex software systems that support silicon design and AI deployment. You will lead technical strategy and mentor teams, guiding how AI enables engineering workflows while ensuring security, reliability, and maintainability.

You will collaborate with silicon engineering, software, data, and product teams to deliver integrated, scalable solutions, driving time-to-market improvements and

Qualifications

• Extensive industry experience architecting, building, deploying, and supporting complex software systems or commercial‑grade products.
• Experience with semiconductors, electronic design automation, hardware/software co‑design, silicon design, verification, validation, or adjacent engineering domains.
• Experience developing AI‑enabled developer tools, engineering automation, knowledge systems, or enterprise AI platforms.
• Demonstrated success designing scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable distributed systems, platforms, services, or developer tools.
• Strong software engineering foundation, including architecture patterns, APIs, data models, integration strategies, testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
• Practical experience applying modern AI technologies to real‑world products or engineering workflows, with an understanding of model integration, evaluation, data quality, guardrails, and operational considerations.

Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end architecture, technical strategy, and evolution roadmap for complex software platforms and products used in silicon design, verification, validation, and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Translate business, engineering, and customer needs into scalable system designs, clear interfaces, reusable services, and actionable implementation plans.
• Provide technical leadership across the complete product lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, integration, validation, deployment, observability, support, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and apply modern AI technologies—including generative AI, large language models, intelligent agents, retrieval-augmented systems, and machine-learning platforms to deliver measurable improvements in productivity, efficiency, quality, and time-to-market.
• Establish architectural standards and engineering practices for performance, reliability, security, maintainability, extensibility, and operational readiness.
• Partner closely with silicon engineering, software development, infrastructure, data, security, product management, and customer-facing teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Champion exceptional user and customer experiences through intuitive workflows, high-quality documentation, responsive support models, structured feedback mechanisms, and data-driven product improvements.
• Guide technical trade-offs, architecture reviews, design reviews, prototyping, and risk management across multiple teams and complex dependencies.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, raise software engineering standards, and influence stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Assess emerging technologies and external solutions, distinguishing practical value from experimentation and creating disciplined paths from proof of concept to production.

Skills

Software architecture leadership

Technical leadership

AI technologies awareness

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

APIs

Observability tools

Job description

AMD seeks a Principal Software Architect, AI-Enabled Silicon Development to define architecture for complex software systems that support silicon design and AI deployment. You will lead technical strategy and mentor teams, guiding how AI enables engineering workflows while ensuring security, reliability, and maintainability.

You will collaborate with silicon engineering, software, data, and product teams to deliver integrated, scalable solutions, driving time-to-market improvements and