Principal Platform System Engineering Lead

About the Role

AMD is seeking a highly technical leader to support platform architecture, serviceability, telemetry, and associated debug across AMD Instinct™ AI platforms. This role combines architecture ownership with hands-on execution, root-cause analysis, and deployment readiness across BMC, platform firmware, system software, and management infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for platform management, serviceability, diagnostics, and observability.
• Define and drive BMC, Redfish, telemetry, inventory management, and health monitoring solutions.
• Lead cross-functional debug and root-cause analysis of platform issues spanning hardware, firmware, BMC, and software.
• Drive customer escalations, deployment readiness, and field issue resolution.
• Establish diagnostic frameworks, debug methodologies, and serviceability requirements.
• Partner with silicon, platform, firmware, software, validation, and customer engineering teams.
• Influence future platform management architecture and industry standards adoption.

Requirements

• Strong background in server, AI accelerator, GPU, or datacenter platforms.
• Deep expertise in BMC architecture and OpenBMC environments.
• Hands-on experience with Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, IPMI, and DMTF standards.
• Knowledge of I2C, SMBus, PMBus, SPI, PCIe, UART, and platform sideband interfaces.
• Experience in telemetry, sensors, event logging, diagnostics, and root-cause analysis.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical investigations and drive issue closure across organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hyperscale datacenter deployments.
• Understanding of RAS, fault management, and serviceability architectures.
• Strong automation and debug tooling experience.
• Experience supporting customer escalations and production platforms.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field. Advanced degree preferred.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Benefits offered are described at AMD benefits at a glance.