System Architecture Fellow - AI & Data Center Networking

THE ROLE:

The System Architecture Fellow - AI & Data Center Networking is the highestimpact individual contributor responsible for defining and driving endtoend system architecture for AMD's nextgeneration AI and data center networking platforms. This role focuses on 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, package, board, optics, power, thermal, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing domains without direct people management responsibility.

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, identifying risks, tradeoffs, and technology inflection points well ahead of execution.

CrossDomain Technical Leadership

• Serve as the primary technical authority for systemlevel issues spanning ASIC, packaging, board design, optics, power, thermal, and mechanical integration.
• Resolve the most complex bringup, validation, and field issues, synthesizing data across domains to drive rootcause closure and architectural fixes.
• Ensure architectural intent is preserved through implementation, validation, and production ramps.

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 quality across programs.
• Champion disciplined systemlevel thinking throughout hardware development organizations.

Influence, Mentorship & Technical Community

• Influence senior engineers, architects, and managers across organizations through technical depth, clarity, and credibility, not authority.
• Mentor Principal and PMTSlevel engineers on system thinking, architecture tradeoffs, and pathtoFellow technical growth.
• Represent NTSG in crossorg architecture forums and Fellowlevel technical councils.

Strategic Impact

• Shape multigeneration system and platform roadmaps aligned with AMD's AI networking strategy.
• Anticipate architectural transitions (bandwidth scaling, optics adoption, power density, rack integration) and guide organizations through them with minimal 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 bringup at high data rates.
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, crossdomain problems with significant organizational and business impact.

Preferred

• Experience with AI scaleout networking systems, AINICs, DPUs, or highbandwidth switching platforms.
• Familiarity with advanced interconnect and packaging technologies and systemlevel implications.
• History of enterpriselevel technical influence (e.g., Fellow recognition trajectory, architecture ownership, critical platforms).

Impact & Scope

• Companylevel influence on architecture, product readiness, and technical direction for AI networking platforms.
• Acts as the system architecture backbone connecting strategy to execution across multiple organizations.
• Defines the technical bar for system architecture excellence within NTSG.
• Recognized industry or academic thought leader;publications and patents a strong plus

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

PhD/Master'sinComputer Science, Electrical Engineering, ora relatedtechnical field.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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