Originally posted 9 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Lead Customer Systems Design Engineer on AMD's Customer Applications Engineering team, you will drive the design, integration, and deployment of x86-based embedded solutions for networking and storage customers. The role combines system-level technical guidance and hands-on debug to enable OEM and ODM partners to bring products to market.
What you'll do
- Provide technical guidance to ODM and OEM customers on integrating AMD processors into networking, storage products, and custom designs.
- Conduct architecture reviews, schematic reviews, design-in support, and customer product feature training.
- Analyze, debug, and root cause hardware and software boundary issues on AMD processor-enabled platforms, working with development teams to resolve them.
- Train field sales and technical support personnel on AMD product capabilities and implementations.
- Feed customer and platform insights back to R&D teams to improve future AMD platform architectures.
What you'll need
- Bachelor or Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Background in platform-level debugging across hardware and software boundaries on processor-based systems.
- Experience providing schematic reviews, architecture guidance, and design-in customer support.
Nice to have
- Expertise in hardware architecture, logic/circuit design, and implementation.
- Hands-on experience in design and debugging HW issues on SoC and x86 platform.
- Experience with signal integrity and power delivery network analysis.
- Familiarity with high-speed circuit testing using oscilloscopes and JBERT.
- Experience with DDR4/5, LPDDR4/5, U/R/LR DIMM JEDEC standards, PCIe4/5, or 1/2.5/10G Ethernet.
- Familiarity with programming or scripting languages including C/C++, Python, or Perl.
- Familiarity with Server OSes such as Linux and Windows Server.
Skills: x86, design-in, schematic review, signal integrity, debug
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 73-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
42
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Median days open
73 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (42 roles · 12 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 42 |
| Median days open | 35 d | 73 d (−38 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: x86, design-in, schematic review, signal integrity, debug
Who's hiring in this category
- Baya Systems · 9 open roles · median 109 d
- GlobalFoundries · 8 open roles · median 102 d
- Arm Holdings · 6 open roles · median 12 d
- Texas Instruments · 5 open roles · median 58 d
- NVIDIA · 4 open roles · median 66 d
- Intel Corporation · 3 open roles · median 30 d
How we counted: 42 open Applications FAE (SOC Architecture) roles from 12 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Nov 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.