Systems Design Eng Client Systems Special Projects & Strategy

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AMD is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to lead client systems special projects and multi‑generation strategy across our client platform portfolio. This role is designed for a senior technical leader operating at company scope, with deep experience spanning silicon design, system design, and platform integration, combined with a proven track record of technical leadership, cross‑organizational influence, and strategic decision‑making.

This position requires exceptional systems‑level judgment, credibility with senior technical and engineering leadership, and the ability to lead through influence rather than authority. This person restores critical system‑level and cross‑organizational connective tissue across AMD’s client platform ecosystem—without adding organizational complexity. By combining silicon experience, system‑level thinking, leadership credibility, and strategic scope, the role enables faster, higher‑quality decisions and ensures AMD’s client platforms are architected deliberately for the future, not optimized one generation at a time.

• Lead high‑impact special projects that span silicon, system, platform, and ecosystem boundaries, particularly where ownership is distributed across multiple organizations.
• Frame ambiguous technical and organizational problems, define scope and objectives, and drive alignment to resolution.
• Act as a single‑threaded technical owner for initiatives that exceed the normal capacity or charter of existing execution teams.

• Drive and contribute to long‑range client system strategy, shaping platform direction for next‑generation and future‑generation products (2–4 years forward).
• Identify system‑level architectural opportunities and risks across compute, graphics, memory, I/O, power, thermals, firmware, and software integration.
• Ensure long‑lead system requirements are surfaced early and reflected in architectural and platform planning.

• Partner closely with SoC Architecture, Platform Architecture, and Silicon Design teams to provide system‑informed input into architectural tradeoffs and capability planning.
• Influence SoC and platform decisions early, based on system behavior, integration risk, and real‑world constraints—without assuming formal architecture ownership.
• Translate system‑level insights into actionable guidance for silicon and platform roadmap discussions.

• Operate as a trusted senior technical peer to other senior engineers and technical leadership across Client Systems, Architecture, Product, and CE organizations.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment through technical credibility, structured reasoning, and clear communication.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for system‑level and strategic thinking across the organization.

• Provide system‑level technical input to Product Management to support roadmap definition and prioritization.
• Partner with Customer Engineering to elevate recurring customer and ecosystem themes into forward‑looking system and platform strategy.
• Ensure external and ecosystem dependencies are factored into future platform decisions.

• Company‑level influence across multiple client product generations and platforms.
• Direct impact on architectural decisions, roadmap…