Lead Systems Management Architect

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At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.

AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

AMD is seeking a Lead Systems Management Architect to lead key aspects of the architecture and feature definition for the management of AMD Instinct accelerators and associated server platforms. This is a highly visible technical leadership role contributing to the overall rack-scale management architecture. You will collaborate with fellow architects, internal engineering teams, AMD partners, and end customers to develop novel features and create solutions that support future AMD products and integration with customer datacenter infrastructure.

A deep understanding of the entire out-of-band (OOB) ecosystem, from the DCIM SW layer down to the managed components, will be critical for success in this role.

The ideal candidate brings deep, hands‑on expertise across the full OOB management stack — comfortable reasoning about DCIM and orchestration software requirements at one end and getting into the details of BMC firmware, platform interfaces, and device‑level protocols at the other. You have a strong background in GPU/accelerator or server platform management and can translate that experience into clear architectural direction that works in practice, not just on paper.

You are as effective writing a detailed interface specification or debugging a bring‑up issue as you are presenting a roadmap proposal to senior leadership or walking a customer through a platform integration. You work well in environments where requirements are still taking shape, build credibility through technical depth rather than title, and make the teams around you better.

• Lead key aspects of architecture and feature definition for the OOB management of AMD Instinct GPU accelerators and associated server platforms, encompassing health monitoring, power and thermal management, firmware lifecycle, inventory, and error handling, while ensuring these capabilities integrate coherently into the broader rack-scale management architecture.
• Define and contribute to the standards-based interface strategy for GPU and server platform manageability using DMTF Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, and related specifications, balancing standards compliance with AMD‑specific and OEM extension requirements.
• Work with BMC and embedded firmware teams to define OOB management feature requirements, including Redfish schemas, sensor and inventory representations, eventing, firmware update flows, and debug workflows specific to GPU and server platform components.
• Contribute to firmware management architecture for AMD Instinct accelerators and server platforms, covering in‑band and out‑of‑band update flows, versioning, dependency management, activation strategies, and recovery mechanisms.
• Engage directly with end customers, AMD partners, and ODM/OEMs to understand datacenter integration requirements, DCIM and orchestration software expectations, and operational workflows, translating these into concrete feature and interface requirements and guiding partners through implementation.
• Partner with GPU/SoC architects, board and system architects, firmware and software teams, security/RAS, and validation to translate architecture into production‑ready deliverables, and contribute to conformance and validation strategy for platform manageability.
• Help shape future AMD Instinct platform roadmaps through customer engagement and field learnings, participate in relevant standards and open‑source communities including DMTF and OpenBMC, and…