AI Instinct System Management Architect - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 19 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The AI Instinct System Management Architect will define and drive the architecture for system management and observability across AMD’s AI datacenter platforms. This role spans firmware, operating systems, rack controllers, and orchestration layers to deliver highly manageable, composable, and secure infrastructure at rack and pod scale.
What you'll do
- Define and drive the architecture for system management and observability across AMD’s AI datacenter platforms.
- Develop a unified architecture for rack-scale and pod-scale management, ensuring seamless integration from device-level firmware to orchestration layers.
- Develop standards-based interfaces and telemetry frameworks (Redfish, DMTF) for compute, storage, networking, and accelerators at scale.
- Enable discovery, provisioning, firmware upgrades, and decommissioning workflows across racks and pods.
- Collaborate with customers and partners to align with DCIM/ITSM environments, validate designs, and lead proof-of-concepts.
- Produce architectural collateral and documentation, including reference designs, integration guides, and telemetry baselines for customer readiness.
What you'll need
- Expert background in systems or platform software architecture with focus on system management and server manageability.
- Deep expertise in BMC firmware stacks, telemetry, inventory, alerting, and management protocols.
- Strong knowledge of DMTF standards (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, Redfish), platform security, and management networking.
- Experience with PCIe, CXL, NVMe interconnects and cluster schedulers (Kubernetes, Slurm).
- Proven ability to combine technical leadership with customer engagement for scalable AI datacenter deployments.
Nice to have
- Experience with GPU/accelerator platforms.
- Familiarity with telemetry stacks (Prometheus, Loki, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
- Knowledge of datacenter infrastructure components (racks, PDUs, power/thermal systems, fabric networking).
- Contributions to open standards or open-source projects related to manageability or observability.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python/Go; solid Linux systems experience.
Skills: system management architecture, AI datacenter platforms, BMC firmware, Redfish, orchestration layers
This role has been open 58 days — slightly above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
974
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (974 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 55 | 974 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 409 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 18 d | 51 d (−33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: system management architecture, AI datacenter platforms, BMC firmware, Redfish, orchestration layers
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 55 d
- AMD (this employer) · 55 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 91 d
- Intel Corporation · 41 open roles · median 10 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 81 d
How we counted: 974 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.