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Advanced Microdevices Pvt. Ltd. (India) · 12 hours ago

Sr Director, Platform Architecture and Workload Strategy - Data Center GPU

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

18+ years exp

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc is a company dedicated to building innovative products that enhance computing experiences. They are seeking a Senior Director of Platform Architecture & Technical Requirements to lead a product management organization focused on defining technical requirements for next-generation GPU and datacenter platforms.

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Responsibilities

Lead and grow a multi-disciplinary product management team responsible for cross-stack technical requirements definition encompassing hardware architecture enablers, system-level behaviors, software execution models, and performance requirements

Establish a disciplined framework for cross-stack requirements gathering, synthesis, and documentation, ensuring alignment across architecture, software, and system engineering teams

Foster a culture of technical depth, innovation, predictive analysis, and cross-functional accountability

Develop technical product management talent and build a high-performing organization capable of driving architecture-level clarity and foresight

Own the detailed, end-to-end platform requirements informing future Instinct GPU, system, and ROCm software designs

Translate insights from AI model evolution, datatype innovation (e.g., FP8, sparsity, quantization), algorithmic speed-up techniques, and distributed scaling methodologies into future platform requirements

Define requirements for compiler/runtime capabilities, ROCm software features, kernel libraries, observability, and developer tooling based on forward-looking technology trends

Ensure platform requirements accurately capture workload characteristics, informed by performance modeling, hardware measurement, and system-level profiling

Partner closely with architecture teams to influence long-range silicon definition and ensure platform alignment with future workloads and software execution patterns

Produce rigorous PRDs and technical specifications that guide engineering deliverables across multiple organizations

Maintain deep understanding of AI/ML model architectures, HPC application patterns, emerging parallelism strategies, memory/data movement bottlenecks, and future framework trends

Continuously assess how workload trends and developer ecosystem shifts impact platform design across hardware and software layers

Provide strategic technical guidance to AMD leadership regarding long-range architectural needs, opportunities, and risks

Drive early internal understanding of disruptive trends in model scaling, compilers, inference acceleration, datatypes, and system software

Collaborate with Architecture, Silicon Design, Systems Engineering, ROCm Software Engineering, Compilers, and Performance Modeling teams to synchronize cross-stack requirements with engineering roadmaps

Participate in executive-level decision-making forums, advising on platform architecture direction, cross-stack trade-offs, and technical investment priorities

Work closely with product management peers to ensure platform-level technical requirements complement broader roadmap and market strategies

Ensure technical requirement clarity throughout engineering development and across phase-gate processes

Engage with hyperscalers, CSPs, OEMs, AI research labs, and open-source communities to understand future workload trajectories, software stack expectations, and deployment environments

Represent AMD’s platform architecture and technical requirements strategy in strategic customer and ecosystem engagements

Build relationships across the AI and HPC research communities to inform future platform direction

Provide senior thought leadership across architectural domains, including: GPU architecture enablers and long-range design assumptions, System interconnects, memory hierarchy, and scaling behavior, Compiler/runtime abstractions and execution models, ROCm APIs, libraries, and developer ecosystem readiness, Performance modeling methodologies and projection frameworks, Datatypes, numerics, sparsity formats, and algorithmic evolution, Observability, debugging/profiling tooling, and developer workflows

Ensure that AMD’s technical PM function maintains a unified and rigorous engineering foundation across all programs

Qualification

Technical product managementSystem architectureAI/HPC workloadsPerformance modelingGPU computingCompiler/runtime systemsROCm softwareExecutive communicationAnalytical thinkingCross-functional collaboration

Required

18+ years of experience across technical product management, system architecture, software engineering, or performance engineering, with 8+ years in senior leadership roles

Demonstrated expertise spanning both hardware and software architectural domains, including AI/HPC workloads, GPU computing, compiler/runtime systems, or performance modeling

Proven ability to define cross-layer technical requirements that inform multi-year architecture and platform development

Experience synthesizing complex technology and workload trends into clear strategic guidance

Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence architecture and engineering leadership