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# Director - Datacenter Solution Architect

- **Company:** Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $252,960.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Ethernet, Network Topologies, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18199551?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18199551%2FDirector-Datacenter-Solution-Architect-Washington-Seattle

## About the Role

You are comfortable operating as a trusted technical advisor to senior management and at a deeply technical level. Own the endtoend technical narrative from early solutioning through Basis of Design development, while aligning AMD internal teams, partners, and OEMs around a coherent architecture.
Success in this role requires strong judgment, crossdomain fluency, and the ability to turn complex constraints into clear, defensible designs., * Experience designing largescale GPU or HPC clusters for AI workloads.

 * Understanding of data center architecture including:
 - Highspeed Ethernet networking
 - Distributed and parallel storage systems
 - Power distribution, redundancy, and capacity planning
 - Air and liquid cooling solutions
 - Physical layout and racklevel design
 * Experience producing or reviewing Basis of Design, reference architectures, or similar engineering documentation.
 * Customerfacing technical experience with the ability to clearly communicate complex tradeoffs.
 * Strong systems mindset with the ability to connect compute, network, storage, and facilities constraints.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
 * High ownership, attention to detail, and ability to operate independently across ambiguous problem spaces.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field required

## Description

This role blends deep GPU cluster architecture expertise with customerfacing technical leadership. It requires a systemslevel thinker who can translate customer requirements into complete, buildable data center designs-spanning compute, networking, storage, power, cooling, and physical layout., * Lead customer engagements to define AI GPU cluster architecture and develop complete Basis of Design (BoD) documents.

 * Architect endtoend data center solutions including GPU platforms, highspeed networking, storage, power distribution, cooling, and floor layout.
 * Translate AI workload requirements (training, inference, mixed workloads) into scalable, reliable infrastructure designs optimized for AMD platforms.
 * Partner with customers, OEMs/ODMs, and AMD internal teams to align on technical decisions and tradeoffs.
 * Perform architecture reviews, gap analysis, and risk assessments to ensure designs are deployable and operationally sound.
 * Provide guidance on best practices for power redundancy, cooling strategies, network topology, and cluster scalability.
 * Support presales, solution reviews, and executivelevel technical discussions as needed., AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD's "Responsible AI Policy" is available here.


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