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System Design Leader or Architect

AMD· Engineering
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ShanghaiFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Lead the laptop system design architecture and technical direction across CRB and ODM platforms at AMD. Drive engagement with ODM partners, define architecture guidelines, manage trade-offs and risk, and communicate program status to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Own laptop system design architecture and technical direction across CRB and ODM platforms.
  • Lead deep technical engagement with ODM partners to co-develop reference systems aligned with AMD platform requirements.
  • Act as the primary technical interface between ODM engineering teams and AMD internal functional teams.
  • Drive cross-team technical discussions, issue triage, and debug closure for ODM ORB/ORS programs.
  • Provide architecture guidance for key laptop components, including panel, memory, storage, and interface subsystems.
  • Own cross-domain requirement definition and system-level trade-off decisions for performance, thermals, cost, and schedule.
  • Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans across ODM and AMD teams.
  • Build reusable architecture guidelines and best practices to support sustainable scaling of laptop programs.
  • Define SI readiness criteria, integration milestones, and exit gates for each development phase.
  • Lead SI planning and sign-off with AMD functional teams
  • Define and maintain product/platform positioning versus competitive systems, including SKU and feature-set recommendations.
  • Communicate program status, risks, and decision records to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in notebook/laptop system design or platform architecture.
  • Strong hands-on experience in notebook platform architecture, board-level integration, and cross-functional system bring-up.
  • Proven experience engaging directly with ODM/OEM engineering teams to drive technical alignment and execution.
  • Solid understanding of system-level design trade-offs across silicon, firmware, BIOS, thermal, and mechanical constraints.
  • Experience in root cause debug and issue closure for complex platform problems.
  • Hands-on signal integration (SI) experience, SI test planning, and phase-gate sign-off.
  • Product management skills: requirements definition, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and product/platform roadmap execution.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional technical discussions.

Skills

Required:Laptop system architectureODM/OEM engagementSystem trade-off analysis

Benefits

  • AMD benefits at a glance (as described in the job post)
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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