CVP AI Infrastructure Job Listing at AMD in San Jose, CA (Job ID 77732-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

THE ROLE:

We are seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Vice President of Engineering Infrastructure to lead our critical developer platform serving 1,000+ engineers. You will own the end-to-end infrastructure that powers development, testing, builds, performance engineering, and large-scale distributed workloads across our large GPU fleet.

THE PERSON:

This is a high-impact leadership role with a big capital expenditure portfolio and direct influence on engineering velocity, developer experience, and technical excellence across the organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering growth
• Own capacity planning and forecasting models to ensure infrastructure scales ahead of demand
• Partner with Finance on capital planning, TCO optimization, and investment prioritization
• Build executive-level relationships across Engineering, Product, and Operations

Infrastructure Execution

• Lead architecture decisions for compute, storage, networking, and cluster orchestration
• Drive reliability, performance, and efficiency improvements across the shared platform
• Establish SLAs, metrics, and operational excellence standards for developer-facing services

Team & Organizational Development

• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing infrastructure organization
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Balance competing demands across workload types (dev, test, build, perf, large-scale runs)
• Champion developer experience and internal customer satisfaction

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Deep-Stack Infrastructure Expertise: Managing distributed systems at hyperscale, with a proven track record in bare metal management and automated provisioning. 

• Accelerated Compute Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of the GPU software stack, including drivers, kernel tuning, and hardware/software optimizations for AMD or NVIDIA platforms. 

• High-Performance Networking & Storage: Hands-on experience with low-latency fabrics (InfiniBand, RDMA/RoCE) and tiered storage architectures required to prevent GPU starvation. 

• Modern Orchestration Tooling: Deep technical proficiency in container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes) and specialized AI schedulers, with experience building automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure. 

• Systems-Level Management: In-depth understanding of Linux kernel internals and low-level hardware management protocols like IPMI, Redfish, or BMC configuration. 

• AI/ML Operational Fluency: Practical experience with the AI lifecycle, including LLM pre-training, fine-tuning (LoRA), and RAG pipelines, to better support internal engineering and customer success teams. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS, MS or equivalent with direct experience

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Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD's “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.