Lead Systems Engineer, Enterprise AI Server Platform Validation - TX, Austin-MET, United States
Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.
Own server platform validation for EPYC and Instinct enterprise AI platforms.
About the role
The Lead Systems Engineer owns end-to-end server platform validation from architecture alignment through post-silicon bring-up, debug, and customer enablement. This role supports the AMD Compute and Enterprise AI Server team developing platforms for EPYC and Instinct products.
What you'll do
- Own platform validation strategy, execution, feature readiness, and delivery outcomes. - Translate product requirements and customer use cases into scalable validation plans. - Lead alignment across architecture, hardware, firmware, BIOS, software, validation, performance, and customer engineering. - Drive post-silicon bring-up, system debug, test execution, and validation milestones. - Define platform configurations, firmware requirements, debug tools, and validation environments. - Prioritize defects, lead root-cause analysis, and drive mitigation and resolution plans.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Systems-level technical leadership experience spanning architecture, silicon, firmware, software, validation, and performance. - Technical background in post-silicon bring-up, system debug, defect tracking, and root-cause analysis. - Experience operating across engineering teams to communicate technical risks and tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Leadership of complex system development or post-silicon validation programs. - Experience across server architecture, silicon, firmware, validation, or performance, with depth in at least one area. - Understanding of CPU, GPU, memory, I/O, firmware, BIOS, and system-level interactions. - Experience with Linux, Windows, and hypervisors such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V. - Experience with test automation, validation coverage, execution efficiency, or product quality improvements.
Skills: server platform validation, post-silicon bring-up, system debug, CPU GPU memory I/O, firmware BIOS, system-level interactions
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 59-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
104
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$206k
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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 (104 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 31 | 104 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 408 | 6166 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 59 d | 59 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $206k |
Skills observed across this category: server platform validation, post-silicon bring-up, system debug, CPU GPU memory I/O, firmware BIOS, system-level interactions
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 28 open roles · median 59 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 47 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 78 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 46 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 26 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 18 d
How we counted: 104 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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.