Sr. FAE/Field Application Engineer - Meta

AMD; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a senior technical leader to manage the FAE team supporting a strategic datacenter customer in the San Jose/SF Bay Area. The role combines technical authority with team leadership, overseeing all aspects of the customer engagement and coordinating with sales, marketing, and engineering to ensure successful deployments.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record in CPU/server architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and datacenter technologies, with excellent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (CS or Electrical Engineering preferred).
• Experience leading a customer-facing engineering team is essential.
• Strong knowledge of x86 server platforms, CPUs, GPUs, and performance profiling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales to drive portfolio expansion and move platforms from evaluation to deployment.
• Lead and develop the FAE team supporting the customer (Meta).
• Influence architecture and implementation of new datacenter systems using AMD technologies.
• Provide onsite and remote engineering support through design, testing, and debugging.
• Coordinate strategic technical initiatives and investigations.
• Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts.
• Advocate for new features to meet customer needs and relay feedback to AMD teams.

Skills

Customer-facing team leadership

Interpersonal & communication

Hardware & system architecture

CPU/server architecture

Server benchmarks & GPU computing

Problem solving & multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE

Tools

Linux OS

UEFI firmware

Server hardware diagnostics

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 our next team member to lead the AMD technical engagement with this strategic Mega Datacenter customer in the San Jose, California area. This is a hybrid role: the successful candidate is both the senior technical authority on the account and the manager for the FAE team supporting it. The team leader is responsible for all aspects of technical engagement with the customer, accountable to the Field Engineering Director and Sales Team for the account.

THE PERSON:

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• Experience managing a customer-facing engineering support team

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) with a balance of hardware, system architecture and application software expertise

• Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement

• Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and to balance many priorities at once

• Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships

• Willing to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion – accountable to the Sales Team for moving platforms from evaluation to committed volume deployment

• Lead and develop the FAE team supporting Meta

• Influence and support concept, architecture, and implementation of new systems based on AMD datacenter computing technologies

• Onsite and remote engineering support through the development process, including tools, documentation, test, and debug

• Coordinate forward looking strategic technical initiatives/investigations

• Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts

• Advocate within AMD for new features/technology to meet unique customer needs. Drive customer feedback into AMD business unit and engineering teams.

There is an emphasis on close customer collaboration across platform architecture, development, and optimization. This effort requires a technical understanding of x86 server platform and processor SOC architecture, common cloud and MDC workloads, and performance profiling and monitoring utilities.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Proven experience leading a team of customer-facing engineers.

• Proven experience as a senior level engineer (or equivalent technical role) balanced with experience in a customer-facing role

• Proven experience in server platform architecture and/or platform development experience

• Proven knowledge in any of these application areas: cloud computing / benchmarking, high-performance computing, networking, software defined storage and data analytics, databases

• Expertise in server software ecosystem and familiarity with Linux OS at debug level.

• Hands on experience in the setup and configuration of server systems including software, networking and storage infrastructure, and a proven understanding of server hardware ecosystem at the node, rack and datacenter level

• Experience in application/workload profiling, tuning and performance assessment and UEFI/platform firmware a plus

• Experience with FPGA programming/accelerators a plus

• Someone with the desire to continuously learn

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent (Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred)

LOCATION:

San Jose, California or SF Bay Area

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.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s ‘Responsible AI Policy’ is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.