Sr. FAE​/Field Application Engineer - Meta

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We are looking for our next team member to lead the AMD technical engagement with this strategic Mega Datacenter customer in the San Jose, California area. This is a hybrid role: the successful candidate is both the senior technical authority on the account and the manager for the FAE team supporting it. The team leader is responsible for all aspects of technical engagement with the customer, accountable to the Field Engineering Director and Sales Team for the account.

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• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) with a balance of hardware, system architecture and application software expertise

• Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement

• Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and to balance many priorities at once

• Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships

• Willing to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic)

• A strong desire to continuously learn

• Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion – accountable to the Sales Team for moving platforms from evaluation to committed volume deployment

• Lead and develop the FAE team supporting Meta

• Influence and support concept, architecture, and implementation of new systems based on AMD data center computing technologies

• Onsite and remote engineering support through the development process, including tools, documentation, test, and debug

• Coordinate forward looking strategic technical initiatives/investigations

• Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts

• Advocate within AMD for new features/technology to meet unique customer needs. Drive customer feedback into AMD business unit and engineering teams.

• There is an emphasis on close customer collaboration across platform architecture, development, and optimization. This effort requires a technical understanding of x86 server platform and processor SOC architecture, common cloud and MDC workloads, and performance profiling and monitoring utilities.

• Experience as a senior level engineer (or equivalent technical role) balanced with experience in a customer-facing role

• Experience in server platform architecture and/or platform development experience

• Knowledge in any of these application areas: cloud computing / benchmarking, high-performance computing, networking, software defined storage and data analytics, databases

• Expertise in server software ecosystem and familiarity with Linux OS at debug level

• Experience leading a team of customer-facing engineers.

• Hands on experience in the setup and configuration of server systems including software, networking and storage infrastructure, and a proven understanding of server hardware ecosystem at the node, rack and datacenter level

• Experience in application/workload profiling, tuning and performance assessment and UEFI/platform firmware a plus

• Experience with FPGA programming/accelerators a plus

• Bachelor’s…