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# Cloud & Customer Solutions Engineer - DC GPU

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c4eb1a1b01f2b5e3

AMD posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Bellevue, WA with no pay posted. Own end-to-end deployment and sustained production operation of AMD Instinct GPU clusters for strategic AI customers, spanning certification, workload performance, and incident response. 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 Bellevue, WA Full-time

Own end-to-end deployment and sustained production operation of AMD Instinct GPU clusters for strategic AI customers, spanning certification, workload performance, and incident response.

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- [View posting at AMD](https://careers.amd.com/jobs/91074)

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

Not posted

Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **5+ years** production software or infrastructure engineering *Preferred*

Background

- **Software engineering**

Visa

- **No visa sponsorship**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

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The job is in Bellevue, WA. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: Bellevue, WA

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Visa sponsorship**: Not available

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## What you’ll do

- Bring up, certify, and operate AMD Instinct GPU customer deployments.
- Deploy and optimize distributed training and inference stacks across cloud and bare-metal environments.
- Lead production incident response and drive root causes to permanent resolution.
- Build validation and observability tooling, and enable customer teams to operate independently.

## What you’ll bring

- 5+ years of production software or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Hands-on GPU compute at scale, including cluster deployment, distributed training or inference, and performance debugging.
- Experience with Kubernetes and/or Slurm, GPU containers, collective communication, networking, and observability tooling.
- Cloud platform experience, including hybrid or bare-metal deployment patterns.

## 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

[View posting at AMD](https://careers.amd.com/jobs/91074)

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