Sr. Director of Engineering, Data Center Infrastructure

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Seattle, WA

About The Position

AMD is seeking a visionary Senior Director of AI Data Center Infrastructure Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, deployment, and operation of next-generation AI data centers and large-scale compute environments. This highly visible leadership role will be responsible for defining AMD's AI infrastructure architecture across rack-scale and cluster-scale deployments, spanning facility infrastructure, compute systems, networking, software operations, and reliability engineering. The successful candidate will lead a world-class organization of engineers and architects responsible for building scalable AI infrastructure that supports AMD's internal development, validation, and customer enablement initiatives. This position requires a unique combination of executive leadership, systems thinking, and deep technical expertise across data center architecture, networking, distributed systems, cluster operations, and large-scale infrastructure deployment.

Requirements

Experience designing, deploying, and operating large-scale data center environments.
Experience leading engineering organizations, including ownership of large multidisciplinary teams.
Demonstrated success building and scaling AI, cloud, hyperscale, HPC, or enterprise data center infrastructure.
Extensive experience with data center architecture, power delivery, thermal management, capacity planning, and facility operations.
Deep knowledge of AI infrastructure, server architectures, accelerator-based computing platforms, and rack-scale system design.
Proven expertise designing high-performance data center networks, including switching, routing, Ethernet fabrics, RDMA, InfiniBand, and next-generation interconnect technologies.
Experience leading compute cluster deployment, lifecycle management, and large-scale distributed system operations.
Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation frameworks, monitoring, observability, and operational best practices.
Proven ability to lead technical organizations through significant technology transformations and rapid growth.
Experience influencing cross-functional roadmaps involving hardware, software, networking, and infrastructure teams.
Strong executive communication skills with demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership, customers, and external partners.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical field.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree preferred.
PhD considered a plus.

Responsibilities

Define AMD's end-to-end AI data center infrastructure strategy, including compute architecture, facility requirements, operational models, and scalability planning.
Lead architecture and deployment decisions for large-scale AI and HPC data center environments spanning thousands of servers and accelerators.
Drive infrastructure planning across power distribution, cooling strategies, space utilization, capacity forecasting, and operational readiness.
Analyze performance, efficiency, reliability, and total cost of ownership (TCO) tradeoffs to optimize infrastructure investments.
Partner with internal engineering organizations, facilities teams, and external vendors to deliver world-class AI infrastructure platforms.
Own architecture decisions spanning silicon, servers, rack-scale solutions, and full data center deployments.
Collaborate closely with hardware, software, networking, systems design, platform engineering, and product organizations to align infrastructure capabilities with AMD technology roadmaps.
Drive architecture reviews and technical decision-making across mechanical, electrical, thermal, firmware, software, and systems domains.
Establish scalable infrastructure standards and design methodologies for future AI platforms.
Lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of large-scale AI training and inference clusters.
Establish operational excellence through Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability frameworks, incident management processes, and capacity planning.
Develop automation strategies that improve deployment speed, infrastructure efficiency, system reliability, and operational scalability.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on availability, resilience, performance, and cost optimization.
Define reliability and service-level objectives (SLOs) for production infrastructure environments.
Define and optimize networking architectures supporting large-scale AI and HPC environments.
Lead strategy across network topology, high-speed fabrics, switching architectures, routing infrastructure, and accelerator interconnect technologies.
Evaluate and implement next-generation networking technologies to maximize cluster performance and scalability.
Champion software-defined networking (SDN), network automation, and observability solutions across global infrastructure deployments.
Partner with AMD product and ecosystem teams to influence future networking roadmaps.
Lead, mentor, and grow a global organization of 50-75 engineers, architects, and technical leaders.
Establish a high-performance engineering culture focused on innovation, accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence.
Develop organizational strategy, succession planning, workforce development, and talent acquisition initiatives.
Serve as a key technical advisor to executive leadership on AI infrastructure strategy, investment priorities, and industry trends.
Collaborate with strategic customers, system integrators, technology partners, and suppliers to drive alignment across the AI ecosystem.
Monitor competitive technologies, emerging market trends, and industry innovation to influence AMD's long-term infrastructure vision.