System Design Leader or Architect - Shanghai-Design Ctr B1, China
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role involves owning laptop system design architecture and technical direction across CRB and ODM platforms. You will lead deep technical engagement with ODM partners to co-develop reference systems aligned with AMD platform requirements.
What you'll do
- Own laptop system design architecture and technical direction across CRB and ODM platforms.
- Lead deep technical engagement with ODM partners to co-develop reference systems.
- Act as the primary technical interface between ODM engineering teams and AMD internal functional teams.
- Drive cross-team technical discussions, issue triage, and debug closure for ODM ORB/ORS programs.
- Provide architecture guidance for key laptop components, including panel, memory, storage, and interface subsystems.
- Own cross-domain requirement definition and system-level trade-off decisions for performance, thermals, cost, and schedule.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in notebook/laptop system design or platform architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience in notebook platform architecture, board-level integration, and cross-functional system bring-up.
- Proven experience engaging directly with ODM/OEM engineering teams to drive technical alignment and execution.
- Solid understanding of system-level design trade-offs across silicon, firmware, BIOS, thermal, and mechanical constraints.
- Hands-on signal integration (SI) experience, SI test planning, and phase-gate sign-off.
Skills: laptop system design, platform architecture, board-level integration, signal integration, ODM partners
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 49-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
97
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Median days open
49 d
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Median salary
$213k
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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 (97 roles · 26 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 29 | 97 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 399 | 5873 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 32 d | 49 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $213k |
Skills observed across this category: laptop system design, platform architecture, board-level integration, signal integration, ODM partners
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 28 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 55 d
- NVIDIA · 15 open roles · median 46 d
- Intel Corporation · 5 open roles · median 19 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 45 d
- Apple · 2 open roles · median 7 d
How we counted: 97 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 26 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 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.