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THE ROLE:
We are looking for our next team member to lead the AMD technical engagement with this strategic Mega Datacenter customer in the San Jose, California area.
This is a hybrid role: the successful candidate is both the senior technical authority on the account and the manager for the FAE team supporting it.
The team leader
is r esponsible for all aspects of technical engagement with the customer, accountable to the Field Engineering Director and Sales Team for the account.
THE PERSON:
Does this sound like you?
We'd love to talk!
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
Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and to balance many priorities at once
- Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships
- Willing to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic)
- A strong desire to continuously learn
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion – accountable to the Sales Team for moving platforms from evaluation to committed volume deployment
- Lead and develop the FAE team supporting Meta
- Influence and support c oncept
- , architecture, and implementation of new systems based on AMD datacenter computing technologies
- Onsite and remote engineering support through the development process
- , including tools, documentation, test
- , and debug
- Coordinat e forward looking strategic technical initiatives/investigations
- Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts
- Advocat e within AMD for new features/technology to meet unique customer needs.
- Drive customer feedback into AMD business unit and engineering teams.
- There is an emphasis on close customer collaboration across platform architecture, development, and optimization.
- This effort r equir es a technical understanding of x86 server platform and processor SOC architecture, common cloud and MDC workloads, and performance profiling and monitoring utilities.
- PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 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 any of these application areas: cloud computing / benchmarking, high-performance computing, networking, software defined storage and data analytics, 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 a proven 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 a plus
- Experience with FPGA programming/accelerators a plus
- A CA
- DEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent (Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred)
- LOCATION: San Jose, California or SF Bay Area
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
THE ROLE:
We are looking for our next team member to lead the AMD technical engagement with this strategic Mega Datacenter customer in the San Jose, California area.
This is a hybrid role: the successful candidate is both the senior technical authority on the account and the manager for the FAE team supporting it.
The team leader
is r esponsible for all aspects of technical engagement with the customer, accountable to the Field Engineering Director and Sales Team for the account.
THE PERSON:
Does this sound like you?
We'd love to talk!
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
Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and to balance many priorities at once
- Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships
- Willing to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic)
- A strong desire to continuously learn
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion – accountable to the Sales Team for moving platforms from evaluation to committed volume deployment
- Lead and develop the FAE team supporting Meta
- Influence and support c oncept
- , architecture, and implementation of new systems based on AMD datacenter computing technologies
- Onsite and remote engineering support through the development process
- , including tools, documentation, test
- , and debug
- Coordinat e forward looking strategic technical initiatives/investigations
- Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts
- Advocat e within AMD for new features/technology to meet unique customer needs.
- Drive customer feedback into AMD business unit and engineering teams.
- There is an emphasis on close customer collaboration across platform architecture, development, and optimization.
- This effort r equir es a technical understanding of x86 server platform and processor SOC architecture, common cloud and MDC workloads, and performance profiling and monitoring utilities.
- PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 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 any of these application areas: cloud computing / benchmarking, high-performance computing, networking, software defined storage and data analytics, 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 a proven 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 a plus
- Experience with FPGA programming/accelerators a plus
- A CA
- DEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent (Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred)
- LOCATION: San Jose, California or SF Bay Area
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Qualifications