AI Instinct System Management Architect
AMD
AI Instinct System Management Architect
AMD
Designs chips for computers and AI systems
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Role Overview
The AI Instinct System Management Architect will define and drive the architecture for system management and observability across AMD’s AI datacenter platforms. This role spans firmware, operating systems, rack controllers, and orchestration layers to deliver highly manageable, composable, and secure infrastructure at rack and pod scale. It combines deep technical expertise with customer engagement, owning reference designs and blueprints for deploying, integrating, and operating system management at scale.
Key Priorities
Required Qualifications
Expert background in systems or platform software architecture with focus on system management and server manageability.
Deep expertise in BMC firmware stacks, telemetry, inventory, alerting, and management protocols.
Strong knowledge of DMTF standards (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, Redfish), platform security, and management networking.
Experience with PCIe, CXL, NVMe interconnects and cluster schedulers (Kubernetes, Slurm).
Proven ability to combine technical leadership with customer engagement for scalable AI datacenter deployments.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with GPU/accelerator platforms
Familiarity with telemetry stacks (Prometheus, Loki, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
Knowledge of datacenter infrastructure components (racks, PDUs, power/thermal systems, fabric networking).
Contributions to open standards or open-source projects related to manageability or observability.
Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python/Go; solid Linux systems experience.
Location: Santa Clara, CA
This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
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AMD designs processors, graphics chips and AI accelerators for computer makers, cloud operators and businesses that build electronic devices. Its Ryzen processors power personal computers, while EPYC processors handle work in data centers and Radeon chips render graphics. Instinct accelerators run AI models, paired with software that developers use to train models and put them into production. AMD sells chips and related computing systems through equipment makers, distributors and retail channels, and contracts with outside foundries to fabricate its semiconductor designs. It was founded in 1969 and has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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