Principal Field Application Engineer - Datacenter; Seattle

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We are looking for our next team member to support this strategic Mega Datacenter customer in the Seattle, Washington area. To help drive a new era of computing into the datacenter by engaging with key customer engineering and leadership to demonstrate AMD technology differentiators, addressing their business needs in real‑world usage scenarios. Responsible for leading all aspects of technical engagement with the customer, accountable to the Field Engineering Director and Sales Team for the account.

Occasionally providing training to teammates and assisting them with their unique challenges. With a special emphasis on platform and end‑user workload optimization, cultivating a deep technical understanding of x86 server platform and processor SOC architecture, the Linux operating system, common cloud and MDC workloads, and performance profiling and monitoring utilities. Demonstrating the synthesis of this knowledge to understand application performance from the core to the node to the datacenter to guide the customer.

Does this sound like you? We’d love to talk!

• 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, FPGA accelerators, 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 many priorities at once
• Ability to cultivate strong internal (sales, marketing, engineering) and external (customer) relationships
• Physical requirement: able to lift up to 50 lbs. (racking hardware)
• Willing to travel up to 25%

• Articulate the benefits of AMD based technology offerings for the cloud service provider and MDC market verticals
• Provide hands‑on, expert‑level technical guidance to systems engineers and application developers
• Partner with other AMD subject matter authorities to tackle specific customer challenges
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and detail technical solutions that are aligned with end‑user objectives
• Architect, install and test solutions in‑house, as needed, to ensure successful deployments and evaluations
• Design and lead the execution of evaluations to ensure a quality solution is delivered, providing technical assistance to sales for overall account strategy based on AMD data‑center solutions
• Gather a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and clearly articulate the technical differentiation and value proposition associated with AMD versus our competitors
• Drive customer feedback into AMD sales, business unit and engineering teams

• Provide technical guidance to sales personnel and the customer in the evaluation, design and development of AMD based server and/or data center solutions as identified by sales leadership.
• Partner with sales in uncovering possible application of our products and solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Align with AMD Sales, Architecture, Development, CTO, Business Unit, and other relevant teams as needed to accomplish account goals.
• Perform technical presentations, training and updates for customers, partners, and prospects.
• Translate customer business issues and requirements into technical solution opportunities/engagements…