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Sr. Director, Pre-Si System Validation, Data Center GPU Products

AMD· Engineering
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San Jose, CA$268.6k - $403kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role directing system-level modeling, emulation, and pre-silicon validation for AMD's Data Center GPU platforms, coordinating across architecture, silicon, systems, software, performance, and customer teams to deliver early system-level insights and enable HW/SW co-design.

Responsibilities

  • Own the system-level validation strategy and roadmap for Data Center GPU platforms across pre- and post-silicon.
  • Establish emulation as a core DCGPU execution capability, accelerating architectural confidence, software bring-up, and risk reduction.
  • Drive investment and prioritization of emulation infrastructure, tooling, and methodologies aligned to DCGPU scale and timelines.
  • Lead simulation and emulation of GPU SoCs, multi-die architectures, and full system platforms for AI training, inference, and HPC workloads.
  • Enable rack-, pod-, and cluster-level exploration, spanning memory hierarchy, interconnects/fabrics, IO, and platform interactions.
  • Partner with architecture and performance teams to deliver early system-scale performance, power, and scalability insights.
  • Drive shift-left HW/SW co-design through high-fidelity modeling including emulation, enabling early access for firmware, drivers, runtime, compilers, and frameworks.
  • Integrate emulation into software development and validation flows to improve predictability and time-to-value.
  • Correlate emulation results with workload behavior and performance targets in partnership with performance teams.
  • Serve as the executive owner for system-level emulation in architecture, program, and executive reviews.
  • Partner with platform solutions and customer engineering to ensure system readiness for hyperscalers, CSPs, and enterprise customers.
  • Represent AMD in strategic customer and partner engagements where system-level validation is a key differentiator.
  • Build and lead a world-class system-level emulation organization, including senior architects and people leaders.
  • Establish technical standards, best practices, and governance across emulation, simulation, and hybrid modeling.
  • Mentor senior technical leaders, strengthening AMD's long-term system modeling and emulation bench.

Qualifications

  • Proven leadership of large, multi-disciplinary teams at Sr. Director/VP level
  • Deep expertise in system-level modeling, simulation, and emulation
  • Strong knowledge of AI/HPC workloads, GPU architectures, memory, and interconnects
  • Experience in HW/SW co-design, workload-driven architecture, and performance modeling
  • Ability to translate complex technical insights into clear executive decisions
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Skills

Required:System-level modelingEmulation infrastructureHW/SW co-designExecutive communication
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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