Director of Field Applications Engineering and Technical Lead - AWS

Director of Field Applications Engineering and Technical Lead - AWS

Join AMD as a Director of Field Applications Engineering and Technical Lead for AWS.

$248,800 /yr - $373,200 /yr

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next‑generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Our culture of innovation and collaboration fuels bold ideas, human ingenuity and diverse perspectives to solve the world’s most important challenges.

Lead the technical engagement with a strategic Mega Datacenter customer in Seattle, Washington, as the technical lead for AMD. Manage the team of field application engineers supporting the account and collaborate with sales and engineering to deliver AMD solutions.

• Collaborate with sales to communicate AMD’s competitive advantages for cloud workloads.
• Concept, design and implementation of new systems around AMD datacenter computing technologies.
• Provide onsite and remote customer support during development, including tools, documentation, implementation and debugging.
• Coordinate forward‑looking strategic technical initiatives and investigations.
• Lead performance optimization efforts for CPU, GPU, FPGA, and networking workloads.
• Advocate within AMD for new features and technology to meet customer needs.

• Experience managing a customer‑facing engineering support team.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a balance of hardware, system architecture and application software expertise.
• Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, FPGA accelerators and server platform enablement.
• Strong problem‑solving, time‑management, prioritization and organizational skills.
• Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships.
• Physical requirement: able to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Willing to travel up to 25%.

• Manage a small but growing team of FAEs supporting AWS.
• Articulate the benefits of AMD technology offerings for cloud service providers and MDC market verticals.
• Provide hands‑on, expert‑level technical guidance to systems engineers and application developers.
• Partner with other AMD subject matter authorities to tackle specific customer challenges.
• Lead technical design sessions and architect detailed solutions aligned with end‑user objectives.
• Architect, install and test solutions in‑house to ensure successful deployments and evaluations.
• Design and lead the execution of evaluations to deliver quality solutions and support overall account strategy.
• Gather a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and articulate AMD’s technical differentiation.
• Drive customer feedback into AMD sales, business unit and engineering teams.

• Provide technical guidance to sales personnel and the customer in the evaluation, design and development of AMD‑based server and/or data‑center solutions.
• Partner with sales in uncovering possible applications of our products and solutions.
• Align with AMD and partner teams to accomplish account goals.
• Perform technical presentations, training and updates for customers, partners and prospects.
• Translate customer business issues into technical solution opportunities.
• Monitor competitive solutions and provide responses as needed.
• Assist with solution development and architectural design to meet customer needs.
• Analyze customer product solutions and evaluate performance based on market requirements.
• Partner with domain specialists to build specific customer solutions.
• Install and test solutions in‑house as required.
• Lead technical engagements to support design win opportunities.
• Architect and detail technical solutions aligned with customer objectives.
• Define, scope and document technical requirements and customer expectations.
• Provide hands‑on technical assistance to customer development and software teams.
• Define, implement and manage customer evaluations and proofs of concept.
• Be a credible authority on product capabilities.

• Proven experience leading a…