HPC Solutions Architect and System Engineer

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HPC Solutions Architect and System Engineer

THE TEAM:

AMD's Data Center GPU organization is transforming the industry with our AI based Graphic Processors. Our primary objective is to design exceptional products that drive the evolution of computing experiences, serving as the cornerstone for enterprise Data Centers, (AI) Artificial Intelligence, HPC and Embedded systems. If this resonates with you, come and joining our Data Center GPU organization where we are building amazing AI powered products with amazing people.

THE ROLE:

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Principal Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD's product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

THE PERSON:

As a Leader in Systems Design Engineering, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your software systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards product development, definition, and root cause resolution.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
• Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs
• Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
• Working closely with supporting technical teams
• Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks

• Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams

• Work with multiple teams within AMD to gather and document requirements, create and derive design details, and create architecture and systems engineering artifacts for new AI- and HPC-focused clustered systems
• Work with project management and internal procurement and IT teams to create actionable Bills of Materials
• Engage AMD's partner and OEM ecosystem to have detailed knowledge of current and future offerings in the clustered systems space
• Work with internal platform engineering team and other stakeholders (internal and external) to capture cluster software requirements, including tenancy and consumption modalities (e.g., baremetal, virtualization, K8s/container-native, etc.)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python).
• Debug techniques and methodologies

• Extensive experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.
• Extensive experience with board/platform-level debug, including delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

• Extensive knowledge in HPC systems design, to include storage, compute, networking, and software
• Expertise in heterogenous (CPU/GPU) and GPU-focused systems for HPC and AI/ML workloads
• Experience in HPC facility planning
• Understanding and familiarity with the current server, networking, and storage OEMs and their offerings pertinent to HPC and AI/ML workloads. Roadmap and ongoing relationships with OEMs and networking
• Experience in creating and maintaining written systems engineering artifacts (security plans, requirements specifications, CONOPs) and drawings (architecture diagrams, logical systems diagrams, cabling diagrams)
• Ability to derive strong technical requirements from diverse stakeholders
• Ability to support occasional travel for team and design meetings, normally within CONUS, is preferred (anticipate <20%)
• Detail-oriented and strong communication skills required.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering

LOCATION:

Austin, Texas, US

Markham, Canada

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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