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Sr. Director, Pre-Si System Validation, Data Center GPU Products

San Jose, CaliforniaFull-time2026-08-25 → 2026-10-22
No visa sponsorship

Core

Leads system-level modeling, emulation, and pre-silicon validation for Data Center GPU platforms to ensure early, system-accurate insights across AI, HPC, and cloud-scale environments.

Role type

Sr. Director, Pre-Si System Validation

Builds

System-level emulation infrastructure, tooling, and methodologies for AMD's Instinct GPUs and ROCm platform

Domain

Semiconductor / Data Center GPU / AI & HPC

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

System-level modeling, emulation, GPU architecture, AI/HPC workloads, HW/SW co-design, executive leadership, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Leadership of large multi-disciplinary teams, deep expertise in simulation and emulation, knowledge of memory hierarchy and interconnects, experience in workload-driven architecture

Technologies

Instinct GPUs, ROCm, emulation tools, simulation frameworks

Responsibilities

Own system-level validation strategy and roadmap; establish emulation as a core capability; lead simulation of GPU SoCs and full system platforms; drive shift-left HW/SW co-design; build and lead the system-level emulation organization; represent AMD in strategic customer engagements

Seniority

Sr. Director, executive-level leadership