System Architect, AI-Driven Robotics & Healthcare

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a System Architect to own architectures for AI-enabled embedded, robotics, and healthcare applications. You will define end-to-end system solutions, partition workloads across CPU/GPU/NPU/FPGA, and architect AI inference pipelines across edge devices.

You will evaluate trade-offs on latency, power, memory, and safety while guiding interfaces and timing budgets. You will collaborate with FPGA, software, firmware, and system teams, review proposals, and

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in a related technical discipline preferred.
• Experience owning system architecture documents, specifications, and system-level technical requirements.
• Experience with AI and edge inference technologies.
• Knowledge of industrial and embedded interfaces and safety standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 13849, IEC 62304.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end system architectures for AI-enabled embedded, robotics, industrial, and healthcare applications.
• Partition workloads across CPU, GPU, NPU, FPGA, AI Engines, MCUs, and external accelerators.
• Architect AI inference pipelines for vision, sensor processing, robotics, and edge intelligence applications.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs involving latency, throughput, determinism, memory bandwidth, power, thermal constraints, functional safety, cost, and scalability.
• Develop system architecture specifications, data-flow diagrams, interface definitions, timing budgets, memory and bandwidth requirements, and implementation guidance.
• Partner with FPGA, software, firmware, AI, and system engineering teams to translate architecture concepts into executable designs.
• Review technical proposals and challenge assumptions using engineering analysis and measurable data.
• Support customer-facing technical discussions by providing clear and credible system architecture guidance.
• Guide proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, reference designs, and technical demonstrators.
• Identify system-level architectural risks early and recommend practical mitigation strategies.

Skills

System architecture

AI workloads

Heterogeneous compute

FPGA design

ARM/x86

Education

Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field

Tools

Yocto

Buildroot

ONNX

PyTorch

TensorFlow

C/C++

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a System Architect to own architectures for AI-enabled embedded, robotics, and healthcare applications. You will define end-to-end system solutions, partition workloads across CPU/GPU/NPU/FPGA, and architect AI inference pipelines across edge devices.

You will evaluate trade-offs on latency, power, memory, and safety while guiding interfaces and timing budgets. You will collaborate with FPGA, software, firmware, and system teams, review proposals, and