Principal AI Software & Systems Architect

Updated October 26, 2026

Pay not postedAustin, TX · Boxborough, MAAustin, TX +1On-sitePrincipal7w ago

Principal architect responsible for driving enterprise and on-premise adoption of AMD AI solutions across client, edge, workstation, and datacenter environments.

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At a glance

Posted base pay

Not posted

Median $225K

Typical staff+ FDE payMiddle 50% of 428 postings$194K–$260K

The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance

Mostly building
Mixed
Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

Pre-sales (not covered)
Proof of concept (not covered)
Implementation
Operations

Coding: Writes production code
Builds for: External customers
Level: Staff+
Role: Technical lead

What they ask for

Tools

AI inference systems
model serving architectures
AI frameworks
inference runtimes
compilers
GPU accelerators
NPUs
accelerator libraries
heterogeneous computing
performance benchmarking

Visa

No visa sponsorship

Less common in FDE jobs

Responsibility level: Staff+16%
Company stage: Public30%
Company size: About 5,000+ people34%
On-site37%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

What you’ll do

Analyze customer and ISV AI deployments across models, frameworks, runtimes, serving infrastructure, and dependencies.
Design workload mappings across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and distributed compute resources, including TCO modeling.
Define and drive software, runtime, compiler, driver, and hardware enablement work on AMD platforms.
Lead strategic customer and ISV architecture reviews, migrations, platform selection, and optimization.

What you’ll bring

Deep expertise in AI inference systems, model serving, AI infrastructure, and production performance optimization.
Strong understanding of AI frameworks, runtimes, compilers, drivers, accelerator libraries, and heterogeneous computing.
Experience analyzing and optimizing software across application, framework, runtime, operating system, driver, and hardware layers.
Experience enabling, optimizing, porting, or debugging software on GPUs or other accelerator platforms.

About AMD

Designs high-performance and adaptive computing products—CPUs, GPUs, networking and embedded processors—for data centers, PCs, gaming and embedded systems.

Public · 5000+ people

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