Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture

Director, AI Instinct Stack Architecture

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At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.

The Role

AMD is seeking a visionary and highly technical Director of Instinct Stack Architecture to lead architecture strategy, technical direction, and cross-functional execution across the AMD Instinct product portfolio. This leader will drive end-to-end architectural alignment across hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, serviceability, platform management, and infrastructure to enable next-generation AI and HPC solutions.

This role leads a high-performing architecture organization responsible for defining scalable system architectures, driving technology strategy, and ensuring architectural consistency across multiple products, programs, domains, and engineering verticals.

The Person

The ideal candidate is a proven technical leader with strong system-level thinking, deep architecture experience, and the ability to lead highly functional teams across multiple verticals. They can operate effectively in a matrixed environment, influence senior stakeholders, align cross-functional teams, and translate long-term architecture vision into executable roadmaps.

They are passionate about developing technical leaders, building strong ownership models, and driving architecture-led execution across complex product stacks.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive architecture strategy, governance, and technical execution for the AMD Instinct Stack across RAS, System Software, Security, Platform Management, Diagnostics, Telemetry, and future platform technologies, while leading a highly functional organization of architects and domain experts operating across multiple engineering verticals and product generations.

• Define and own the long-term architecture strategy and roadmap for AMD Instinct stack architecture across multiple domains.

• Drive architectural alignment across RAS, System Software, Security, Platform Management, Diagnostics, Telemetry, Manageability, Infrastructure, and future platform technologies.

• Establish architecture principles, standards, decision frameworks, and governance models across engineering organizations.

• Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making for next-generation Instinct platforms and strategic initiatives.

• Ensure architecture consistency, scalability, performance, security, reliability, serviceability, and maintainability across the Instinct ecosystem.

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of architects, technical leaders, and domain experts across multiple verticals.

• Establish clear ownership, accountability, operating mechanisms, and execution discipline across architecture domains.

• Partner with silicon architecture, system architecture, firmware, software, validation, product management, customer engineering, and executive leadership.

• Serve as a primary architecture interface for senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and strategic customers.

• Drive product roadmap influence, technology investment recommendations, risk management, and platform simplification.

• Champion innovation, design reuse, platform consistency, and scalable architectural approaches across AMD datacenter products.

• Preferred Experience

• Deep expertise in datacenter GPU, AI accelerator, HPC, large-scale system architecture, or platform architecture.

• Experience spanning hardware, firmware, system software, security, reliability, diagnostics, platform management, and customer enablement.

• Proven experience leading architecture teams supporting complex GPU, CPU, SoC, accelerator, or rack-scale platform programs.

• Demonstrated success influencing executives and senior technical leaders in a highly matrixed engineering environment.

• Strong understanding of RAS, telemetry, serviceability, manageability, resiliency, security, and system-level performance tradeoffs.

• Track record of building high-performing technical teams and developing future architecture leaders.

• Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field required.

• Master’s degree or PhD preferred.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Expert industry experience in systems architecture, platform architecture, software architecture, hardware/software co-design, or related fields.

• Prior experience of leading and managing senior technical teams, architects, or multi-domain engineering organizations.

• Strong track record of delivering complex products from concept through production.

• Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to executive leadership, senior technical forums, and external stakeholders.

• This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.