Sr. FAE/Field Application Engineer - Meta

Advanced Micro Devices; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the San Jose area seeks a senior technical engagement lead to direct the FAE team and serve as the trusted technical authority with a strategic Mega Datacenter customer. You will collaborate with sales to drive platform deployments, guide architecture decisions, and support performance tuning across CPU, GPU, and server software ecosystems.

Travel up to 25% domestically; a technical degree is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in CPU and server system architecture, benchmarks, and platform enablement.
• Strong communication and leadership in a customer-facing role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion and move platforms from evaluation to deployment.
• Lead and develop the FAE team supporting the Mega Datacenter account.
• Influence architecture and implementation decisions for AMD data center technologies.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Server architecture

CPU/Server benchmarks

Problem solving

Relationship building

Travel willingness

Continuous learning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Linux OS

Server software ecosystem

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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• 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)

• A strong desire to continuously learn

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 data center 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:

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

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

• 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

• Experience leading a team of customer-facing engineers.

• 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

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.