Sr. FAE/Field Application Engineer - Meta

AMD; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a senior technical engagement leader to own the strategic Datacenter account in the San Jose/SF Bay Area. The role blends senior technical authority with FAE team leadership, aligning with Sales and Field Engineering Director to drive platform evaluation to deployment.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, influence architecture, provide on-site and remote support, and travel up to 25% domestically.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (CS or EE preferred).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with CPU/server architecture and GPU computing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales to drive portfolio expansion.
• Lead and develop the FAE team supporting the account.
• Influence architecture and implementation of new AMD datacenter systems.
• Provide onsite and remote engineering support through development.
• Coordinate strategic technical investigations and performance optimizations.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

CPU architecture

GPU computing

Server benchmarking

Team leadership

Customer-facing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Linux

UEFI firmware

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology 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 AMD is shaping the future.

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology 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 AMD is shaping the future. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that 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 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

• 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.