Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture

Amd

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$216,640–$324,960 / yr
Posted
21 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago
Closes
Aug 21, 2027

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $239k
This role $271k
$167k most similar roles pay here $342k

This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $191,400–$287,075 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $271k versus about $239k for comparable roles.

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About Amd

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors

Amd currently has 367 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,400–$249,600 across 367 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture

The Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture leads a high-performing architecture organization responsible for the technical direction and strategy of the AMD Instinct product portfolio. This leader manages architects and domain experts to ensure architectural alignment across hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, serviceability, platform management, diagnostics, telemetry, and infrastructure. The role involves defining long-term roadmaps, establishing governance models, and overseeing technical decision-making for next-generation AI and HPC solutions. The successful candidate must possess deep expertise in datacenter GPU, AI accelerator, and large-scale system architecture while navigating complex product stacks involving SoC and rack-scale platforms. Key competencies include hardware/software co-design, RAS, manageability, and performance trade-offs. This position solves the challenge of ensuring consistency and scalability across a diverse ecosystem of products designed for high-performance computing and advanced artificial intelligence applications.

What you'll do

  • Define and own the long-term architecture strategy and roadmap for the AMD Instinct stack across multiple domains.
  • Drive architectural alignment across RAS, system software, security, platform management, diagnostics, and telemetry.
  • Establish architecture principles, standards, decision frameworks, and governance models across engineering organizations.
  • Lead technical reviews and decision-making for next-generation Instinct platforms and strategic initiatives.
  • Ensure consistency in scalability, performance, security, reliability, and serviceability across the Instinct ecosystem.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of architects and domain experts across multiple verticals.
  • Influence product roadmaps, technology investment recommendations, and risk management for datacenter products.
  • Serve as the primary architecture interface for senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and strategic customers.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Master's degree or PhD (preferred).
  • Experience leading architecture teams supporting complex GPU, CPU, SoC, accelerator, or rack-scale platform programs (preferred).
  • Expertise in datacenter GPU, AI accelerator, HPC, large-scale system architecture, or platform architecture (preferred).
  • Experience spanning hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, diagnostics, and platform management (preferred).
  • Proven experience leading and managing senior technical teams or multi-domain engineering organizations (preferred).
  • Track record of delivering complex products from concept through production (preferred).
  • Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to executive leadership and external stakeholders (preferred).

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