Sr. FAE/Field Application Engineer - Meta
Senior Field Application Engineer at AMD serving as the senior technical authority and FAE team manager for the Meta datacenter account in the Bay Area — leading platform architecture, benchmarks, performance optimization, and onsite/remote engineering support. Core focus on x86 server platforms, CPU/GPU computing, and Linux-based performance profiling.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- US,CA,Santa Clara
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience managing a customer-facing engineering support team
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, presentation) with balance of hardware, system architecture and application software expertise
- Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement
- Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization and organizational skills; able to lead complex multi-disciplined, multi-functional efforts
- Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships
- Willing to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic)
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent (Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred)
Nice to have
- Proven experience leading a team of customer-facing engineers
- Proven experience as a senior level engineer balanced with a customer-facing role
- Proven experience in server platform architecture and/or platform development
- Knowledge in cloud computing/benchmarking, high-performance computing, networking, software defined storage, data analytics, or databases
- Expertise in server software ecosystem and familiarity with Linux OS at debug level
- Hands-on experience in setup and configuration of server systems including software, networking and storage infrastructure; understanding of server hardware at node, rack and datacenter level
- Experience in application/workload profiling, tuning and performance assessment; UEFI/platform firmware a plus
- Experience with FPGA programming/accelerators a plus
- Desire to continuously learn
Full description
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Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.
THE ROLE:
We are looking for our next team member to lead the AMD technical engagement with this strategic Mega Datacenter customer in the San Jose, California area. This is a hybrid role: the successful candidate is both the senior technical authority on the account and the manager for the FAE team supporting it. The team leader is responsible for all aspects of technical engagement with the customer, accountable to the Field Engineering Director and Sales Team for the account.
THE PERSON:
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- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) with a balance of hardware, system architecture and application software expertise
- Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement
- Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and to balance many priorities at once
- Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships
- Willing to travel up to 25% (mostly domestic)
- A strong desire to continuously learn
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with sales to drive portfolio expansion – accountable to the Sales Team for moving platforms from evaluation to committed volume deployment
- Lead and develop the FAE team supporting Meta
- Influence and support concept, architecture, and implementation of new systems based on AMD datacenter computing technologies
- Onsite and remote engineering support through the development process, including tools, documentation, test, and debug
- Coordinate forward looking strategic technical initiatives/investigations
- Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts
- Advocate within AMD for new features/technology to meet unique customer needs. Drive customer feedback into AMD business unit and engineering teams.