Sr. Director, Pre-Si System Validation, Data Center GPU Products - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 25 August 2026 by the employer.
This role leads pre-silicon validation for Data Center GPU platforms, including emulation.
About the role
This role leads AMD's system-level modeling and pre-silicon validation for Data Center GPU platforms, ensuring early, system-accurate insights across AI, HPC, and cloud-scale environments.
What you'll do
- Own the system-level validation strategy and roadmap for Data Center GPU platforms.
- Establish emulation as a core DCGPU execution capability, accelerating architectural confidence, software bring-up, and risk reduction.
- Lead simulation and emulation of GPU SoCs, multi-die architectures, and full system platforms for AI training, inference, and HPC workloads.
- Drive shift-left HW/SW co-design through high-fidelity modeling, enabling early access for firmware, drivers, runtime, compilers, and frameworks.
- Serve as the executive owner for system-level emulation in architecture, program, and executive reviews.
- Build and lead a system-level emulation organization, establishing technical standards, best practices, and governance.
What you'll need
- Deep expertise in system-level modeling, simulation, and emulation.
- Strong knowledge of AI/HPC workloads, GPU architectures, memory, and interconnects.
- Experience in HW/SW co-design and performance modeling.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary teams at Sr. Director/VP level.
- Experience with workload-driven architecture.
- Ability to translate complex technical insights into clear executive decisions.
Skills: pre-silicon validation, emulation, GPU platforms, HW/SW co-design, AI/HPC workloads
This role has been open 51 days — well below the 65-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1192
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$186k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (1192 roles · 95 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 97 | 1192 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 255 | 3183 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 65 d (−14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $186k |
Skills observed across this category: pre-silicon validation, emulation, GPU platforms, HW/SW co-design, AI/HPC workloads
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 106 open roles · median 42 d
- AMD (this employer) · 99 open roles · median 55 d
- NVIDIA · 82 open roles · median 57 d
- Synopsys · 63 open roles · median 30 d
- SiFive · 54 open roles · median 72 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 50 open roles · median 114 d
How we counted: 1192 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 95 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 — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.