Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 21 August 2026 by the employer.
Lead architecture strategy and execution for the AMD Instinct product portfolio.
About the role
This role leads architecture strategy, technical direction, and cross-functional execution across the AMD Instinct product portfolio, driving end-to-end architectural alignment across hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, serviceability, platform management, and infrastructure to enable AI and HPC solutions.
What you'll do
- Own and drive architecture strategy, governance, and technical execution for the AMD Instinct Stack across RAS, System Software, Security, Platform Management, Diagnostics, Telemetry, and future platform technologies.
- Define and own the long-term architecture strategy and roadmap for AMD Instinct stack architecture across multiple domains.
- Establish architecture principles, standards, decision frameworks, and governance models across engineering organizations.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making for Instinct platforms and strategic initiatives.
- Partner with silicon architecture, system architecture, firmware, software, validation, product management, and customer engineering.
- Champion innovation, design reuse, platform consistency, and scalable architectural approaches across AMD datacenter products.
What you'll need
- Deep expertise in datacenter GPU, AI accelerator, HPC, large-scale system architecture, or platform architecture.
- Experience spanning hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, diagnostics, platform management, and customer enablement.
- Proven experience leading architecture teams supporting complex GPU, CPU, SoC, accelerator, or rack-scale platform programs.
- Strong understanding of RAS, telemetry, serviceability, manageability, resiliency, security, and system-level performance tradeoffs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Prior experience of leading and managing senior technical teams, architects, or multi-domain engineering organizations.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD.
- Expert industry experience in systems architecture, platform architecture, software architecture, hardware/software co-design, or related fields.
- Strong track record of delivering complex products from concept through production.
- Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to executive leadership, senior technical forums, and external stakeholders.
Skills: AI accelerator, HPC, system architecture, firmware, system software
This role has been open 45 days — well below the 76-day median for AI/ML Hardware Engineering roles.
AI/ML Hardware Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
504
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Median days open
76 d
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Median salary
$230k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (504 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 40 | 504 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 399 | 5996 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 70 d | 76 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: AI accelerator, HPC, system architecture, firmware, system software
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 99 open roles · median 109 d
- NVIDIA · 84 open roles · median 72 d
- AMD (this employer) · 42 open roles · median 66 d
- Micron Technology · 30 open roles · median 58 d
- Mobileye · 18 open roles · median 73 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 15 open roles · median 63 d
How we counted: 504 open AI/ML Hardware Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 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.