Principal Infrastructure Lead - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
Support AMD’s data center GPU platforms, including Helios.
About the role
This role involves enabling and supporting the infrastructure behind AMD’s data center GPU platforms, including Helios. You will serve as a technical leader across networking, storage, and compute virtualization, bringing new platforms and data center environments online.
What you'll do
- Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure incidents spanning data center networking, storage, and compute virtualization. - Lead technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis using monitoring, logs, packet captures, and performance data. - Partner with infrastructure architecture, platform, security, and domain engineering teams to implement reliable, scalable infrastructure solutions. - Support the deployment and enablement of new AMD data center GPU platforms, including network, storage, compute, and virtualization infrastructure. - Design, review, and implement infrastructure solutions for data center builds, expansions, migrations, and hardware refreshes. - Establish effective infrastructure monitoring, alerting, documentation, and operational runbooks.
What you'll need
- Hands-on experience supporting data center, private cloud, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering environments. - Technical expertise across data center networking, enterprise storage, and compute virtualization. - Experience diagnosing complex, cross-domain infrastructure issues across network, storage, compute, and virtualization layers. - Data center networking knowledge including VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN, BGP, OSPF, LACP/MLAG, load balancers, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, and NTP. - Enterprise storage experience across SAN, NAS, or software-defined storage platforms including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, Ceph, or vSAN. - Experience with compute virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi, KVM/QEMU, Proxmox, or Hyper-V. - Strong Linux administration and command-line troubleshooting skills. - Experience with bare-metal provisioning, firmware and BIOS management, and hardware troubleshooting.
Nice to have
- Exposure to containers or Kubernetes operating within virtualized or bare-metal infrastructure environments. - Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms such as Zabbix, Prometheus, or Grafana. - Automation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code experience using tools such as Python, Bash, Go, Ansible, or Terraform. - GPU, AI data center, HPC, high-speed Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, or lossless fabric experience. - Experience documenting technical environments and creating operational runbooks, network diagrams, and system architecture documentation. - A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
Skills: data center GPU platforms, networking, storage, compute virtualization, Linux administration
This role has been open 0 days — 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: data center GPU platforms, networking, storage, compute virtualization, Linux administration
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.