> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Principal AI Software & Systems Architect Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/38a3621cc41f0d47 AMD posts a principal FDE role to build what the customer runs in Austin, TX and 1 more with no pay posted. Leads enterprise AI workload architecture and deployment enablement for AMD platforms, spanning client, edge, workstation, and datacenter environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [AMD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amd) First seen Sep 2, 2026 · open on iCIMS as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Austin, TX +1 Full-time Leads enterprise AI workload architecture and deployment enablement for AMD platforms, spanning client, edge, workstation, and datacenter environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F38a3621cc41f0d47&placement=top) - [View posting at AMD](https://careers.amd.com/jobs/86384) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Visa - **No visa sponsorship** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in Austin, TX · Boxborough, MA. Could you work in one of these? The posting says no visa sponsorship. Do you need one? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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