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At the midpoint, this role pays about
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$178k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$172,000–$258,000
across 496 roles with salary data.
The Sr. Solutions Engineer joins the Software and Solutions Team as a technical leader to accelerate the integration of AMD technology across the open software ecosystem. This hands-on individual contributor role involves defining production-oriented solutions that connect AMD CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, networking, and memory with operating systems, databases, and cloud-native services. You will build reference architectures, reusable software components, and validated deployment patterns while driving upstream collaboration for Linux kernels, device drivers, and container runtimes. Utilizing ROCm™, AMD Zen Software Studio, and AMD Enterprise AI, you will optimize relational, NoSQL, and vector databases. The role solves complex systems integration problems, ensuring high-performance interoperability across AMD and NVIDIA environments while addressing requirements for security, scalability, and developer experience in data-intensive and AI-supported workloads.
What does a Solutions Engineer earn?
Median $190000 from 49 postings across 16 companies.
Define and execute a solution engineering strategy to integrate AMD hardware and software into open-source and enterprise ecosystems.
Create end-to-end reference architectures, reusable software components, and validated deployment patterns for CPUs, GPUs, and networking.
Drive upstream collaboration across Linux kernels, device drivers, container runtimes, and observability platforms to optimize AMD architectures.
Integrate and optimize various database platforms, including relational, NoSQL, analytical, and vector databases, for high-performance scaling.
Design secure, high-performance APIs and SDK integration patterns to simplify application portability and developer adoption.
Support both AMD+AMD and AMD+NVIDIA deployment models to improve interoperability and workload portability.
Apply rigorous profiling and systems analysis to improve latency, throughput, energy efficiency, and total cost of ownership.
Partner with hyperscalers, OEMs, and open-source maintainers to resolve integration barriers and provide feedback for hardware and software roadmaps.
What we're looking for
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (equivalent advanced industry experience may be considered).
Deep expertise in operating systems, kernel and driver interfaces, runtime services, databases, distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native infrastructure, and heterogeneous computing.
Proven ability to turn platform capabilities into integrated, supportable solutions for customers and open-source communities at scale.
Experience with Linux kernel architecture, drivers, system calls, memory management, I/O, networking stacks, and upstream development practices.
Strong programming skills in C, C++, Python, Go, Rust, or comparable systems languages for performance-critical paths and production-quality open-source development.
Expertise in relational, NoSQL, analytical, vector, graph, and distributed database platforms, including performance and scale-out optimization.
Experience designing and integrating REST, gRPC, and systems-level APIs, including working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) (preferred).
Experience with ROCm™, AMD Zen Software Studio, AMD Enterprise AI, or comparable accelerator and compiler ecosystems (preferred).
Linux
C
C++
Python
Go
Rust
Kubernetes
ROCm
AMD Zen Software Studio
AMD Enterprise AI
CI/CD
gRPC
REST
NoSQL
Vector Databases
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Confidential Computing
Distributed Systems
Performance Engineering
Virtualization
IP Networking
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Solution Design
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SOW Development
Firmware Upgrade
Networked Solutions