Field Applications Engineer, Server Datacenter - Dell - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 7 August 2026 by the employer.
Support new product introduction and debug efforts with global datacenter customers focusing on solutions involving GPUs, CPUs, and associated diagnostic and development tools.
About the role
This role involves supporting new product introduction and debug efforts with global datacenter customers, focusing on solutions involving GPUs, CPUs, and associated diagnostic and development tools.
What you'll do
- Develop end customer Proof of Concepts (POCs) with OEM platform solutions to ensure testing and performance meet technical requirements.
- Provide technical assistance to sales personnel and end customers in the evaluation, design, and development of AMD based Server and Client solutions.
- Partner with sales to determine possible applications of AMD based products and solutions to meet customer requirements.
- Perform technical presentations, training, and updates for OEM, partners, and prospects.
- Lead technical design sessions; architect and detail technical solutions aligned with customer objectives.
- Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to end customer development and software teams.
What you'll need
- Proficiency in managing, optimizing, and troubleshooting common client applications and datacenter workloads on AMD hardware.
- Expertise in hardware, architecture, and software.
- Experience in developing technical relationships with target end customer accounts and OEM partners.
- Understanding of the competitive landscape and ability to articulate technical differentiation and value proposition.
- Proficiency in security requirements, certifications, and AMD-based security solutions for large enterprise customers across the ecosystem, including AMD hardware, OS, and OEM platforms.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar field with proven relevant industry professional experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with Server architecture; GPU architecture is a plus.
- Experience integrating, debugging, and/or validating various system components including CPU, GPU, Boards, Storage.
- Experience with large-scale rollouts of datacenter equipment.
- Networking knowledge: TCP/IP, RDMA, RoCE, NICs, Switches.
- Familiarity with AI Models and PCIe Architecture.
- Proficiency in server software ecosystem (OS/Hypervisors, Compilers, Libraries, debug tools, development tools and validation workloads).
- Knowledge of platform firmware features (BIOS, BMC, SMU).
- Hands-on experience and strong expertise in server hardware ecosystem at the node, rack, and datacenter level.
Skills: datacenter workloads, GPUs, CPUs, server architecture, technical assistance, customer engagements
This role has been open 71 days — well above the 46-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
102
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Median days open
46 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (102 roles · 19 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 102 |
| Median days open | 59 d | 46 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: datacenter workloads, GPUs, CPUs, server architecture, technical assistance, customer engagements
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 59 open roles · median 46 d
- AMD (this employer) · 11 open roles · median 60 d
- Tenstorrent · 9 open roles · median 31 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 51 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 3 open roles · median 39 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 16 d
How we counted: 102 open Applications FAE (AI ML Hardware) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.