FAE/Solution Architect, Data Center - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 20 August 2026 by the employer.
Support AMD’s technical engagement with Google as a strategic hyperscale customer.
About the role
This role involves supporting AMD's technical engagement with Google as a strategic hyperscale customer, focusing on mid-level engineering expertise in AMD server platforms and architecture.
What you'll do
- Support Google engineering teams with evaluation and deployment of AMD server platforms.
- Assist with platform bring-up, validation, and debug across CPU, memory, PCIe/CXL, BIOS/UEFI, and Linux OS.
- Execute hands-on debugging and issue triage in collaboration with senior FAEs and AMD engineering teams.
- Support performance analysis, benchmarking, and workload characterization for compute, memory, and I/O.
- Contribute to customer-facing documentation, technical presentations, and test reports.
- Capture customer feedback and relay findings to AMD product, platform, and engineering teams.
What you'll need
- Strong experience in systems engineering, hardware enablement, platform validation, or related technical roles.
- Foundational knowledge of server architectures, including CPUs, memory subsystems, and I/O.
- Working knowledge of Linux-based operating systems and common debugging tools.
- Exposure to server bring-up, validation, performance testing, or customer support environments.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent (Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred).
Nice to have
- Familiarity with datacenter platforms and hyperscale environments.
- Experience with server benchmarking or performance analysis.
- Experience with PCIe, networking, or storage subsystems.
- Experience with BIOS/UEFI or platform firmware concepts.
- Experience with Linux-based operating systems.
- Customer-facing experience (FAE, support engineer, solutions engineer, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with server system setup and configuration, including software and basic networking or storage concepts.
Skills: Field Applications Engineer, server platforms, platform bring-up, Linux OS, performance analysis, customer feedback
This role has been open 57 days — slightly above the 51-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
81
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$170k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (81 roles · 24 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 81 |
| Median days open | 39 d | 51 d (−12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $170k |
Skills observed across this category: Field Applications Engineer, server platforms, platform bring-up, Linux OS, performance analysis, customer feedback
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 12 open roles · median 78 d
- Keysight Technologies · 10 open roles · median 17 d
- Microchip Technology · 10 open roles · median 70 d
- NVIDIA · 10 open roles · median 25 d
- AMD (this employer) · 7 open roles · median 39 d
- Infineon Technologies · 6 open roles · median 55 d
How we counted: 81 open Applications FAE (Systems Software) roles from 24 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. Figures refresh nightly.