Sr. FAE/Field Application Engineer - Meta - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This senior Field Application Engineer role involves leading technical engagement with a strategic Mega Datacenter customer, specifically Meta, in the San Jose, California area, encompassing both technical authority and team management. This effort requires technical understanding of x86 server platform and processor SOC architecture, common cloud and MDC workloads, and performance profiling and monitoring utilities.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion from evaluation to committed volume deployment.
- Lead and develop the FAE team supporting Meta.
- Influence and support concept, architecture, and implementation of new systems based on AMD datacenter computing technologies.
- Provide onsite and remote engineering support through the development process, including tools, documentation, test, and debug.
- Coordinate forward-looking strategic technical initiatives/investigations.
- Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts.
- Advocate within AMD for new features/technology to meet unique customer needs and drive customer feedback into business unit and engineering teams.
What you'll need
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) with a balance of hardware, system architecture, and application software expertise.
- Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement.
- Experience leading complex problems involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and balancing many priorities.
- Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic).
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent (Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred).
Nice to have
- Experience as a senior level engineer or equivalent technical role balanced with experience in a customer-facing role.
- Experience in server platform architecture and/or platform development experience.
- Knowledge in cloud computing / benchmarking, high-performance computing, networking, software defined storage and data analytics, or databases.
- Expertise in server software ecosystem and familiarity with Linux OS at debug level.
- Experience leading a team of customer-facing engineers.
- Hands-on experience in the setup and configuration of server systems including software, networking, and storage infrastructure, and understanding of server hardware ecosystem at the node, rack, and datacenter level.
- Experience in application/workload profiling, tuning, and performance assessment and UEFI/platform firmware.
- Experience with FPGA programming/accelerators.
Skills: technical engagement, customer-facing engineering, server system architecture, platform enablement, performance optimization
This role has been open 19 days — well below the 55-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
43
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$214k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (43 roles · 11 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 43 |
| Median days open | 26 d | 55 d (−29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $214k |
Skills observed across this category: technical engagement, customer-facing engineering, server system architecture, platform enablement, performance optimization
Who's hiring in this category
- GlobalFoundries · 10 open roles · median 84 d
- Baya Systems · 9 open roles · median 80 d
- Texas Instruments · 5 open roles · median 29 d
- Arm Holdings · 4 open roles · median 108 d
- NVIDIA · 4 open roles · median 37 d
- AMD (this employer) · 3 open roles · median 25 d
How we counted: 43 open Applications FAE (SOC Architecture) roles from 11 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. Figures refresh nightly.