Senior Field Application Engineer - HPC

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We are seeking a Senior Field Application Engineer to join our HPC and AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), to lead the technical engagement of HPC opportunities. This is a customer‑facing role based in North America, ideally USA but could include Canada for the right candidate.

This position will:

• help position AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, influencing customers
• perform Proof of Concepts, building and running popular applications and customer in‑house applications

In addition to being customer and partner‑facing, this is a ‘hands‑on’ role working independently and with other AMD engineers. It emphasizes performing Proof of Concepts, tackling technical software and hardware HPC performance, debugging, and capability issues, and collaborating with Field Application Engineering (FAE) peers, Sales colleagues, CPU and GPU Business Units, Architecture, Software, and Platform teams.

• Clear track record of technical execution on HPC opportunities
• Expertise in HPC application performance testing on CPU (and ideally GPU too)
• Strong technical program management skills. Ability to lead technical relationships with both customers and HPC partners
• Ability to independently prioritize opportunities to deliver results on time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good level of business English
• Strong positive can‑do attitude, willing to do what is necessary, runs to problems, available to help colleagues
• Open to domestic and international travel, approximately 10‑25%

• Lead HPC technical engagement in key customer accounts through product discussion and demonstration, collaborating with partners to realize success
• Pitch and demonstrate EPYC and Instinct for HPC, via Proof of Concepts demonstrating performance and using different tool chains
• Hardware and Toolchain performance debug, testing and comparison
• Assist in creating TCO models to assist pricing with bid desk
• Characterise applications on EPYC and Instinct, documenting results
• Perform testing on early CPU samples, engaging active communication with Engineering, Architecture, Platform, Software and Product Development teams to provide feedback and leadership from the field on future direction
• Create necessary training material and provide training sessions at customer sites
• Technically own and resolve customer and partner issues, submitting JIRA tickets and driving resolution
• Automate repeatable procedures

• Track record in winning HPC opportunities over a 3+ year period
• Experience compiling large codes from source, with appropriately linked math libraries and flag optimisation; strong understanding of different tool chains (e.g. ZenSS, Intel, CPE)
• Ability to pitch product and influence customers
• Proven baseline testing of popular synthetic and real‑world codes (e.g. HPL, OpenFOAM, molecular dynamics, CFD, weather)
• Understanding of system‑level hardware and its configuration/impact on performance to enable projections on future performance
• Customer‑facing experience, able to write technical documents and communicate at an appropriate level depending on the audience
• Some Linux administration; understanding setup for HPC middleware

• Proven HPC application…