Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture

Job Title

Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture

Role Summary

Lead architecture strategy, technical direction, and cross-functional execution across the AMD Instinct product portfolio. Drive end-to-end alignment across hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, platform management, and infrastructure to enable AI and HPC platforms.

Manage and grow a team of architects and domain experts and serve as the primary architecture interface to senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and strategic customers.

Experience Level

Senior-level (Director). The posting does not specify years-of-experience guidance.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture strategy and ensure architectural consistency and scalability across the Instinct ecosystem. Key responsibilities include:

• Define and own long-term architecture strategy and roadmap for the Instinct stack across multiple domains.
• Drive architectural alignment across RAS, system software, security, platform management, diagnostics, telemetry, manageability, and infrastructure.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, decision frameworks, and governance models.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making for next-generation platforms and strategic initiatives.
• Ensure architectures meet goals for performance, security, reliability, serviceability, and maintainability.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of architects and technical leaders across multiple verticals.
• Partner with silicon architecture, firmware, software, validation, product management, customer engineering, and executive leadership.
• Influence product roadmaps, technology investments, risk management, and platform simplification efforts.

Requirements

Concise list of must-have and nice-to-have qualifications. Degree requirements are summarized separately under Education Requirements.

Must-have:

• Proven technical leadership in system-level architecture for datacenter GPU, AI accelerator, HPC, or platform programs.
• Experience spanning hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, diagnostics, and platform management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture teams and deliver across multiple product generations and engineering verticals.
• Proven influence in a matrixed environment and experience presenting to executives and senior technical leaders.
• Strong understanding of RAS, telemetry, serviceability, manageability, resiliency, security, and system-level performance tradeoffs.
• Track record of building and mentoring high-performing technical teams and establishing clear ownership and execution discipline.
• Ability to define architecture principles, standards, and governance across organizations.
• Role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with rack-scale platforms, customer enablement, and large-scale systems integration.
• Prior success driving platform simplification, design reuse, and scalable architectural approaches for datacenter products.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree required in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. Master’s degree or PhD preferred. (Education language extracted from the posting.)

About the Company

Company: Advanced Micro Devices

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, USA

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, is a global semiconductor company that designs and manufactures microprocessors, graphics processors, and related technologies for a variety of computing devices. Known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, AMD's mission is to deliver high-performance computing solutions for AI, data centers, gaming, and embedded applications. They foster a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on creativity and problem-solving, aiming to drive progress and excellence in technology.