Hardware System Architecture Fellow - AI & Data Center Networking

THE ROLE:

The Hardware System Architecture Fellow - AI & Data Center Networking is the highestimpact individual contributor responsible for defining and driving endtoend hardware system architecture for AMD's nextgeneration AI and data center networking platforms.

This role provides systemlevel technical leadership, spanning architecture definition, crossdomain tradeoffs, and resolution of the most complex hardware challenges across AINICs, DPUs, switches, and rackscale networking solutions.

THE PERSON:

The Fellow operates with enterprisescale technical authority, shaping multigeneration 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 systemlevel architecture for AI scaleout and scaleup networking platforms, translating product and business requirements into robust, scalable hardware solutions.
• Drive architectural decisions across chiptosystem boundaries, including interconnect topology, board and system partitioning, power delivery strategy, signal integrity constraints, and platform extensibility.
• Lead earlyphase system feasibility analysis, proactively identifying risks, tradeoffs, and technology inflection points.
• CrossDomain Technical Leadership
• Serve as the primary technical authority for systemlevel challenges spanning ASIC, packaging, board design, optics, power, thermal, and mechanical integration.
• Resolve the most complex bringup, validation, and field issues, synthesizing crossdomain data to drive rootcause 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 decisionmaking methodologies across NTSG.
• Define standardized architecture review and system validation flows to improve predictability, reuse, and overall execution quality.
• Champion a disciplined systemlevel 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, tradeoff analysis, and Fellowlevel technical growth.
• Represent NTSG in crossorganization architecture reviews and Fellowlevel technical forums.

Strategic Impact

• Shape multigeneration system and platform roadmaps aligned with AMD's AI networking strategy.
• Anticipate and lead architectural transitions in bandwidth scaling, optical adoption, power density, and racklevel integration.
• Guide organizations through major architectural shifts while minimizing execution risk.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required

• Deep expertise in systemlevel 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 highspeed bringup.
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, crossdomain problems with significant technical and business impact.

Preferred

• Experience with AI scaleout networking systems, including AINICs, DPUs, or highbandwidth switching platforms.
• Familiarity with advanced interconnect and packaging technologies and their systemlevel implications.
• Demonstrated enterpriselevel 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 companylevel architecture, product readiness, and technical direction for AI networking platforms.
• Acts as the system architecture backbone, connecting longterm strategy to execution across multiple organizations.
• Defines and continuously raises the technical bar for system architecture excellence within NTSG.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

PhD preferred

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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