Platform System Architect - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 28 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves driving platform architecture and integration for AMD's products, focusing on chipset, firmware, and I/O subsystem integration.
What you'll do
- Define platform architecture and requirements for chipset and I/O subsystems, including PCIe®, USB4®, USB, SATA, networking, storage, security, and manageability features.
- Lead technical evaluations, design tradeoff analysis, validation planning, bring-up, and debug activities across chipset, I/O, firmware, power delivery, thermal, and system-level subsystems.
- Collaborate with silicon, chipset, firmware, BIOS, validation, compliance, and ecosystem teams to ensure successful platform integration, feature delivery, and certification readiness.
- Work with OEMs, ODMs, board vendors, and ecosystem partners to drive adoption, integration, and successful deployment of AMD platform technologies.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience defining platform requirements and system-level architecture for client, workstation, or server products.
- Strong knowledge of chipset technologies, platform controllers, firmware interactions, high-speed I/O interfaces (PCIe®, USB4®, USB, DisplayPort™, SATA, Ethernet, SPI/eSPI, I2C/I3C, SMBus), and system-level feature integration.
- Extensive knowledge of system architecture, platform design, validation methodologies, technical debug, and root-cause analysis across client, workstation, server, and mobile computing platforms.
- Extensive experience with board and platform bring-up, debug, validation, and optimization using protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, power analyzers, and signal integrity tools.
- Programming/scripting skills (e.g., C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python).
Nice to have
- Experience with regulatory, environmental, interoperability, industry certification requirements, and associated standards.
- Experience developing customer-facing design guidance and technical documentation.
- Understanding of power delivery architectures, platform security technologies, manageability solutions, and board-level design considerations.
- Experience collaborating with OEMs, ODMs, component suppliers, and strategic industry partners to define platform requirements, enable new technologies, and resolve technical integration challenges.
Skills: platform architecture, chipset, I/O subsystems, PCIe, USB4
This role has been open 12 days — well below the 48-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
106
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$208k
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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 (106 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 106 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 403 | 6035 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 50 d | 48 d (+2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $208k |
Skills observed across this category: platform architecture, chipset, I/O subsystems, PCIe, USB4
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 28 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 38 d
- NVIDIA · 15 open roles · median 64 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 37 d
- Apple · 4 open roles · median 9 d
- Graphcore · 4 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 106 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.