Senior Product Application Engineer - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 3 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
It combines Windows AI expertise, strategic OEM and ISV AI solutioning, competitive analysis, and technical collateral ownership.
What you'll do
- Partner with Microsoft and internal AMD teams to validate Windows AI scenarios, close platform gaps, and communicate customer and developer requirements.
- Provide technical support for prioritized and escalated OEM and ISV issues, reproduce problems, lead technical triage, isolate root causes, recommend workarounds, and engage software engineering.
- Own, develop, and maintain customer-facing technical documentation for Ryzen AI, including architecture guidance, installation content, tutorials, samples, troubleshooting material, and release-aligned updates.
- Create or improve reference applications, sample code, diagnostic utilities, and technical collateral that help developers successfully deploy AI workloads on Windows.
- Plan and execute competitive analysis and benchmarking across AMD and competitive AI PC platforms, translating findings into reproducible data, technical insights, and recommendations.
What you'll need
- Relevant experience in AI inference solutions, applications engineering, software engineering, benchmarking, or a closely related technical role.
- Strong hands-on programming and debugging skills in Python and C/C++ on Windows.
- Practical experience with AI/ML inference workflows and frameworks such as PyTorch, ONNX, ONNX Runtime, Hugging Face, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience writing high-quality developer documentation, technical tutorials, sample code, or customer-facing engineering guides.
- Working knowledge of performance analysis, benchmarking methodology, workload characterization, and results interpretation.
Nice to have
- Examples of AI applications built on Windows laptops are a big plus.
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Skills: Windows Local AI, Ryzen AI platforms, OEM/ISV support, technical documentation, AI inference workflows
This role has been open 41 days — below the 44-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
99
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Median days open
44 d
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Median salary
$261k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (99 roles · 19 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 99 |
| Median days open | 57 d | 44 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $261k |
Skills observed across this category: Windows Local AI, Ryzen AI platforms, OEM/ISV support, technical documentation, AI inference workflows
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 58 open roles · median 44 d
- AMD (this employer) · 11 open roles · median 57 d
- Tenstorrent · 8 open roles · median 69 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 4 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 3 open roles · median 83 d
- Microchip Technology · 2 open roles · median 27 d
How we counted: 99 open Applications FAE (AI ML Hardware) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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. Figures refresh nightly.