THE ROLE:The Hardware System Architecture Fellow - AI & Data Center Networking is the highest-impact individual contributor responsible for defining and driving end-to-end hardware system architecture for AMD's next-generation AI and data center networking platforms.
This role provides system-level technical leadership, spanning architecture definition, cross-domain trade-offs, and resolution of the most complex hardware challenges across AI-NICs, DPUs, switches, and rack-scale networking solutions.
THE PERSON:The Fellow operates with enterprise-scale technical authority, shaping multi-generation system architectures and influencing execution across ASIC, packaging, board, optics, power, thermal, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing domains, without direct people management responsibility.
The ideal candidate is a recognized technical leader with deep system expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to influence across organizations through credibility, clarity, and technical depth.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- System Architecture & Technical Vision
- Define system-level architecture for AI scale-out and scale-up networking platforms, translating product and business requirements into robust, scalable hardware solutions.
- Drive architectural decisions across chip-to-system boundaries, including interconnect topology, board and system partitioning, power delivery strategy, signal integrity constraints, and platform extensibility.
- Lead early-phase system feasibility analysis, proactively identifying risks, trade-offs, and technology inflection points.
- Cross-Domain Technical Leadership
- Serve as the primary technical authority for system-level challenges spanning ASIC, packaging, board design, optics, power, thermal, and mechanical integration.
- Resolve the most complex bring-up, validation, and field issues, synthesizing cross-domain data to drive root-cause closure and architectural improvements.
- Ensure architectural intent is preserved through design, validation, and production ramp.
Methodology & Engineering Standards
- Establish and evolve system architecture best practices, review frameworks, and decision-making methodologies across NTSG.
- Define standardized architecture review and system validation flows to improve predictability, reuse, and overall execution quality.
- Champion a disciplined system-level engineering mindset across hardware development organizations.
Influence, Mentorship & Technical Leadership
- Influence senior engineers, architects, and leaders across organizations through technical depth and credibility, rather than authority.
- Mentor Principal and PMTS engineers on system architecture, trade-off analysis, and Fellow-level technical growth.
- Represent NTSG in cross-organization architecture reviews and Fellow-level technical forums.
Strategic Impact
- Shape multi-generation system and platform roadmaps aligned with AMD's AI networking strategy.
- Anticipate and lead architectural transitions in bandwidth scaling, optical adoption, power density, and rack-level integration.
- Guide organizations through major architectural shifts while minimizing execution risk.
QUALIFICATIONS:Required
- Deep expertise in system-level hardware architecture for networking, AI infrastructure, or data center platforms.
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex hardware systems across multiple product generations.
- Broad understanding of board design, power delivery, signal integrity, system validation, and high-speed bring-up.
- Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-domain problems with significant technical and business impact.
Preferred
- Experience with AI scale-out networking systems, including AI-NICs, DPUs, or high-bandwidth switching platforms.
- Familiarity with advanced interconnect and packaging technologies and their system-level implications.
- Demonstrated enterprise-level technical influence (e.g., architecture ownership, critical platform delivery, or Fellow trajectory).
- Recognized industry or academic thought leadership, with publications, patents, or standards contributions.
IMPACT & SCOPE- Drives company-level architecture, product readiness, and technical direction for AI networking platforms.
- Acts as the system architecture backbone, connecting long-term strategy to execution across multiple organizations.
- Defines and continuously raises the technical bar for system architecture excellence within NTSG.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALSMaster's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
PhD preferred
LOCATION:Santa Clara, CA
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