Storage and Memory Systems Architect - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 24 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
AMD is searching for an experienced systems architect to set and drive future vision and technical requirements for memory, storage, and data infrastructure within AMD's Datacenter Solutions Group (DSG).
What you'll do
- Work with OEMs, end customers, ISV/IHV partners to understand workload and use case plans.
- Partner with engineering to help drive reference platform requirements.
- Partner with SoC design teams and product management in providing a unified platform / system level vision to influence AMD’s SoC roadmap.
- Drive workload and application-level strategies internally and with industry partners / ecosystem.
- Represent and promote AMD datacenter system-level vision in industry consortiums, events, and strategic partnerships.
What you'll need
- Broad and deep system technology backgrounds.
- Experience developing, influencing, and collaborating on strategy.
- Ability to translate workload/application trends to system architecture and SOC implications across the entire HW and SW stack.
- BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
Nice to have
- x86 experience.
- Experience as lead architect/engineer for Enterprise level storage platforms/sub-systems for markets such as Cloud, AI, Storage, HPC, Edge, 5G, or Embedded compute platforms.
- Deep understanding of computer architectures based on CPUs.
- Experience developing platforms with high-speed digital design and interconnects.
- Storage & Media experience (i.e. flash, storage-class memory, RAID, SSDs, DDR, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVM programming).
- Understanding of dataflow and memory tiering concepts.
- Extensive knowledge of storage protocols and architectures.
- Networking & IO experience (i.e Ethernet, Infiniband, SmartNics, scale-up and scale-out fabrics, NVMe-oF, PCIe, CXL, UCIe).
Skills: memory systems, storage systems, data infrastructure, datacenter solutions, high-speed digital design, NVMe-oF, CXL, UCIe
This role has been open 52 days — below the 55-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
107
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$212k
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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 (107 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 107 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 404 | 6127 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 55 d | 55 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $212k |
Skills observed across this category: memory systems, storage systems, data infrastructure, datacenter solutions, high-speed digital design, NVMe-oF
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 29 open roles · median 55 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 43 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 74 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 42 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 22 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 14 d
How we counted: 107 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.
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