Principal Infrastructure Architect - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 13 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
What you'll do
- Define and evolve the target-state architecture for AMD’s global lab and data center infrastructure.
- Transform traditionally managed lab and data center environments into scalable, highly automated, cloud-like infrastructure.
- Translate architecture into actionable implementation roadmaps and drive execution across infrastructure teams and sites.
- Evaluate infrastructure technologies, tools, and services and provide architectural direction around technology selection.
- Provide architectural leadership across networking, hypervisors/virtualized compute, storage, observability, automation, bare-metal infrastructure, and Infrastructure as a Service.
- Build alignment across the business and with senior leadership around infrastructure architecture, automation, security, customer-support needs, and long-term direction.
What you'll need
- Experience architecting and implementing infrastructure in a hyperscaler, near-hyperscaler, neocloud, large-scale hosting, or comparable cloud infrastructure environment.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture combined with experience taking architecture through implementation.
- Strong networking knowledge, including segmented network environments.
- Experience with hypervisors and virtualized compute infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of enterprise-scale storage architecture.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and infrastructure telemetry.
- Experience designing or supporting Infrastructure as a Service and API-driven infrastructure.
- Experience with automation, bare-metal infrastructure, and modern infrastructure management practices.
Nice to have
- GPU, AI data center, HPC, or similarly large-scale compute infrastructure experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
Skills: infrastructure architecture, data centers, cloud-like infrastructure, networking, virtualized compute
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
956
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$235k
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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 (956 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 57 | 956 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 409 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 20 d | 51 d (−31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: infrastructure architecture, data centers, cloud-like infrastructure, networking, virtualized compute
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 287 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 56 d
- AMD (this employer) · 53 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 89 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 79 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 956 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.