Principal Platform System Engineering Lead - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 19 May 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 19 August 2026.
Support platform architecture, serviceability, and telemetry across AMD Instinct AI platforms.
About the role
AMD is seeking a platform system engineering leader to support platform architecture, serviceability, telemetry, and associated debug across AMD Instinct AI platforms. The role combines architecture ownership with root-cause analysis and deployment readiness across BMC, platform firmware, system software, and management infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Own architecture for platform management, serviceability, diagnostics, and observability. - Define and drive BMC, Redfish, telemetry, inventory management, and health monitoring solutions. - Lead cross-functional debug and root-cause analysis of platform issues spanning hardware, firmware, BMC, and software. - Drive customer escalations, deployment readiness, and field issue resolution. - Establish diagnostic frameworks, debug methodologies, and serviceability requirements. - Partner with silicon, platform, firmware, software, validation, and customer engineering teams while influencing future platform management architecture and industry standards.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field. - Background in server, AI accelerator, GPU, or datacenter platforms. - Expertise in BMC architecture and OpenBMC environments. - Hands-on experience with Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, IPMI, and DMTF standards. - Knowledge of I2C, SMBus, PMBus, SPI, PCIe, UART, and platform sideband interfaces. - Experience in telemetry, sensors, event logging, diagnostics, and root-cause analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience with hyperscale datacenter deployments. - Understanding of RAS, fault management, and serviceability architectures. - Automation and debug tooling experience. - Experience supporting customer escalations and production platforms. - Advanced degree.
Skills: rack-scale serviceability, telemetry architecture, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC, firmware lifecycle management, Instinct product lines
This role has been open 157 days — well above the 52-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
52 d
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Median salary
$203k
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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 · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 27 | 104 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 389 | 6277 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 64 d | 52 d (+12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $203k |
Skills observed across this category: rack-scale serviceability, telemetry architecture, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC, firmware lifecycle management, Instinct product lines
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 29 open roles · median 64 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 52 d
- NVIDIA · 13 open roles · median 78 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 31 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 3 d
How we counted: 104 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.