Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Sr. Manager Sys/Test Validation Eng.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $140K — $180K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
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Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field required
  • Extensive experience in server or data center platform architecture and/or validation
  • Strong understanding of AI system architectures including CPU, GPU, networking, and software stacks
  • Proven ability to lead small teams of senior technical contributors
  • Several years of experience with scripting, automation, and/or test-content development
  • Demonstrated success defining system-level validation strategies across multiple domains
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level technical communication

Responsibilities

  • Architect validation strategies for server-, rack-, and cluster-level AI platforms
  • Lead and manage a team of senior architects, providing technical direction
  • Lead AI-driven initiatives to build plans, proof-of-concepts, and test content
  • Collaborate with cross-domain engineers to develop validation plans
  • Partner with AMD domain experts across various system components
  • Guide complex cross-domain debug efforts spanning multiple platforms
  • Mentor architects and validation leaders, serving as a technical reference
  • Represent validation architecture in technical forums and executive discussions
  • Contribute to evolving AMD's validation methodologies and best practices

Benefits

  • Access to AMD benefits at a glance
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship
  • Hands-on technical involvement in architectural challenges
  • Leadership role influencing AMD's technical direction
  • Work with cross-functional and diverse teams
Full Job Description
THE ROLE

AMD is seeking a Sr. Manager AI Systems Validation Architect to provide company-level technical leadership in defining how AMD validates AI platforms as production-ready, deployable data center solutions at hyperscale.

This highly technical and people leadership role is responsible for validation architecture across:
  • Server-level systems
  • Rack-level deployment environments
  • Cluster-scale AI infrastructures operating in real-world data centers


You will define validation approaches not just in lab environments, but in conditions that mirror hyperscale deployment realities-including:
  • Large-scale rack bring-up
  • Cluster provisioning and fleet validation
  • Data center integration and operations readiness


This role shapes validation strategy at the architectural level, ensuring alignment across CPU, GPU, networking, system architecture, firmware, and distributed software domains.

You will lead a small team of senior architects, while personally operating as a hands-on technical authority-driving system-level validation, influencing cross-functional teams, and guiding AMD AI platforms from design validation to production deployment readiness in data centers at scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Management and mentoring of a small team of highly technical validation engineers and architects

Validation Architecture (Lab • Data Center Reality)
  • Architect validation strategies for:
    • Server-level AI platforms (CPU, GPU, memory, IO, firmware, system software)
    • Rack-level systems (power delivery, thermals, networking fabric, failure domains, multi-node integration)
    • Cluster-scale deployments (distributed systems behavior, orchestration, scheduling, resiliency, failover)
  • Define validation strategies that reflect hyperscale deployment environments, including:
    • Rack bring-up, provisioning, and fleet rollout
    • Cluster qualification under real-world workloads
    • Data center networking integration (fabric, storage, control planes)
    • Failure injection, fault isolation, and recovery validation


Data Center Deployment & Operational Validation
  • Drive validation methodologies for full-stack deployment readiness, including:
    • Hardware • firmware • OS • orchestration stack bring-up
    • Cluster provisioning and configuration management workflows
    • Integration with orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Slurm, internal schedulers)
  • Partner with platform, SRE, and infrastructure teams to validate:
    • Cluster reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
    • Scale-out behavior under load and failure conditions
    • Real-world operational scenarios (node failure, rack isolation, network partition, degraded performance)


Debug Leadership (System + Fleet + Production)
  • Lead and guide complex debug across:
    • Silicon interactions (CPU/GPU)
    • Firmware and system software
    • Networking and distributed systems
    • Data center deployment environments and clusters
  • Support drive root cause analysis for issues seen in:
    • Lab environments
    • Pre-production clusters
    • Data center deployments / fleet-scale validation environments
  • Help provide requirements and even participate on development of frameworks for:
    • Fleet-level telemetry correlation
    • Failure reproduction at scale
    • Cross-layer debug (HW + SW + distributed system behavior)


SRE / Reliability Engineering Influence
  • Define validation approaches aligned with SRE principles, including:
    • Observability, metrics, and telemetry-driven validation
    • Chaos/failure testing and resiliency validation
    • SLA/SLO-driven validation criteria
  • Partner with SRE and infrastructure teams to ensure:
    • Systems are production-hardened before deployment
    • Validation includes operational readiness, not just functional correctness


Leadership & Cross-Org Influence
  • Lead and manage a small team of senior architects
  • Drive technical direction across silicon, platform, and software orgs
  • Act as a system-level authority bridging validation, infrastructure, and deployment teams
  • Represent validation architecture in executive and cross-functional forums


THE PERSON

The successful candidate is a recognized system-level leader with deep experience in data center systems, cluster-scale environments, and large-scale platform validation.

You are equally comfortable:
  • Managing a small team of highly technical validation engineers/architects
  • Driving architecture for validation at the rack and cluster level
  • Debugging complex multi-node failures in real environments
  • Working cross-functionally with hardware, software, and infrastructure teams
  • Operating in hyperscale data centers (Meta, Google, AWS, etc.)

You bring:
  • A strong systems mindset
  • Experience with real-world deployments (not just lab validation)
  • The ability to scale impact through both leadership and technical depth


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
  • Extensive experience in data center platforms, hyperscale infrastructure, or large distributed systems environments
  • Managing and mentoring small engineering teams
  • Direct experience with:
    • Rack bring-up and cluster deployment workflows
    • Fleet-scale validation or infrastructure qualification
    • Data center operations or infrastructure engineering
  • Strong background in:
    • Distributed systems, cluster orchestration, and scheduling
    • Networking (Ethernet, InfiniBand, RDMA, fabrics)
    • Observability systems (metrics/logging/tracing)
  • Experience in roles such as:
    • SRE, infrastructure engineering, production engineering, or data center validation
    • System-level or fleet-level debugging in production-like environments
  • Proven experience debugging issues across:
    • Hardware (CPU/GPU/platform)
    • Firmware / BIOS / BMC
    • OS / drivers / distributed software stacks
    • Cluster or data center environments
  • Experience with:
    • Failure injection, chaos testing, or reliability validation
    • Large-scale workload validation (AI/ML training, HPC, distributed compute)
  • Hands-on skills in:
    • Scripting, automation, and test tooling
    • Data-driven debugging and telemetry analysis
  • Experience influencing large organizations without direct authority
  • Strong ability to communicate across:
    • Engineering teams
    • Infrastructure/ops teams
    • Executive leadership


ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
  • Advanced degree or equivalent industry experience preferred

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This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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Size
15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
NASDAQ
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