RAS Architect - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a RAS Architect at AMD, you will define and develop system-level reliability, availability, and serviceability capabilities across complex computing systems and scale-out environments. Your work spans server and embedded RAS architectures, fault detection, redundancy, recovery mechanisms, and diagnostics from architecture definition through early customer support.
What you'll do
- Design and develop server and embedded RAS architectures for AMD products deployed in scale-out environments. - Define and analyze reliability, availability, and serviceability requirements aligned with industry standards and customer expectations. - Conduct failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) in collaboration with hardware and software teams to identify potential failure points and mitigation strategies. - Develop fault detection, isolation, recovery, redundancy, and error-correction mechanisms. - Define and implement advanced diagnostics, system health monitoring, and predictive maintenance capabilities. - Conduct system-level simulations, analysis, and testing to validate and verify RAS architectures and components.
What you'll need
- Experience with system-level architecture design, reliability engineering, and fault-tolerance mechanisms for complex computing systems, data centers, or mission-critical applications. - Experience with fault-tolerant design principles, redundancy, error correction codes (ECC), and error-recovery mechanisms. - Experience using system-level simulation tools and methodologies, including fault injection, reliability block diagrams, and failure-rate analysis. - Experience programming in C/C++ in Linux environments. - BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Linux kernel internals and code review. - Experience developing and optimizing RAS architectures.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 81-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
486
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Median days open
81 d
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Median salary
$239k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (486 roles · 68 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 40 | 486 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 259 | 3359 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 81 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $239k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 83 open roles · median 81 d
- NVIDIA · 54 open roles · median 69 d
- Apple · 44 open roles · median 18 d
- AMD (this employer) · 36 open roles · median 76 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 124 d
- Micron Technology · 21 open roles · median 103 d
How we counted: 486 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 68 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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 Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.