1 day ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$201k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive AMD CPU and GPU enablement and ecosystem readiness in VMware VCF environments.
- Support hardware bring-up and triage issues involving firmware, BIOS settings, operating systems, and hypervisor interactions.
- Debug VMware ESXi system- and kernel-level issues and determine root causes across platform software layers.
- Validate, deploy, debug, and optimize VMware platform features and solution stacks on AMD products.
- Perform performance analysis, tuning, and optimization for VMware workloads and publish tuning guides, performance results, and best practices.
- Build and maintain Python, scripting, and automation frameworks for validation, debugging, performance triage, and reliability.
- Engage enterprise customers, OEMs, OS partners, and virtualization partners on proofs of concept, escalations, and solution delivery.
- Mentor engineers and help shape technical direction as a senior individual contributor.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience with VMware VCF, vSphere/ESX, NSX, and related products.
- Strong VMware debugging skills at the system and hypervisor level.
- Solid knowledge of x86_64 architecture and system-level performance concepts.
- Proficiency in C, Python, and scripting for systems work, debugging, tooling, and automation.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers, OEMs, and OS partners on virtualization solutions and platform enablement.
- Experience building or maintaining automation frameworks for system software validation and performance or regression workflows.
- Familiarity with Nutanix AHV and KVM-based virtualization stacks in addition to VMware VCF.
- Experience leading distributed engineering teams across time zones in an agile development environment.
- Master’s degree preferred in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
Benefits
- Position is located in Santa Clara, California, or Austin, Texas.
- AMD states that benefits are offered, with details provided in its benefits overview.
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
About AMD
AMD designs and sells CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive/embedded computing products for PCs, data centers, gaming, and edge devices. Its portfolio includes Ryzen and EPYC processors, Radeon and Instinct graphics, and adaptive SoCs from its Xilinx acquisition, sold to OEMs, cloud providers, and device makers. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company on NASDAQ and supplies semi-custom chips for major game consoles.