Software Solutions Engineer - TX, Austin-MET, United States
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Software Solutions Engineer role involves solving complex system-level challenges across hardware and software boundaries within AMD's Datacenter Application & Ecosystem Engineering organization.
What you'll do
- Lead the solution, development, validation, and optimization of software for AMD datacenter products.
- Drive technical investigations involving hardware, firmware, operating systems, virtualization technologies, and cloud environments.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
- Partner with architecture, silicon design, firmware, BIOS, operating system, and cloud teams to resolve system-level issues.
- Develop and execute performance characterization, benchmarking, workload analysis, and optimization strategies.
- Design and implement automation frameworks that improve engineering productivity and validation coverage.
- Lead root cause analysis efforts for complex customer-reported issues.
What you'll need
- Advanced experience in systems software, platform engineering, operating systems, virtualization, or performance engineering.
- Strong understanding of x86 server architecture and modern datacenter platforms.
- Extensive experience debugging complex software and system issues using tools such as WinDBG, kernel debuggers, trace analysis tools, and performance profiling utilities.
- Experience with Windows Server, Linux distributions, Hyper-V, VMware, or KVM.
- Strong software development skills using Python, C, and/or C++.
- Experience developing automation frameworks, validation tools, or performance analysis infrastructure.
- Experience running, analyzing, and interpreting system-level benchmarks and performance workloads.
- Working knowledge of firmware, BIOS, device drivers, kernel subsystems, or hardware/software interactions.
- Experience collaborating with customers, ecosystem partners, cloud providers, or independent hardware/software vendors.
- Demonstrated success leading technical projects and influencing engineering decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Skills: software systems engineer, datacenter technologies, hardware, firmware, operating system, virtualization, Windows Operating system debugging, x86 server architecture
This role has been open 20 days — well below the 60-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
680
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Median days open
60 d
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Median salary
$215k
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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 (680 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 680 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 407 | 6028 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 60 d (−9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $215k |
Skills observed across this category: software systems engineer, datacenter technologies, hardware, firmware, operating system, virtualization, Windows Operating system debugging, x86 server architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 165 open roles · median 75 d
- NVIDIA · 129 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD (this employer) · 59 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 29 open roles · median 74 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 46 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 108 d
How we counted: 680 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 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.