
Server Field Applications Engineer
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement
- Broad technical understanding of server CPUs, platform architecture and the development process needed to successfully bring a server-based product to production
- 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
- Excellent collaborative skills, and ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills and demonstrated success in building strong technical relationships (internal: Sales, Marketing, Engineering and external: OEM)
- Able to lift up to 50 lbs. (racking hardware)
- Develop technical relationships with target customer base
- Win new AMD server opportunities with target customers
- Support customer engineering teams throughout server development process
- 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 or other vertical targets 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 that best demonstrate our product offerings.
- Keep abreast of the competitive landscape and clearly articulate the technical differentiation and value proposition associated with AMD versus its competitors.
- Keep up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions and work with internal teams to provide responses where needed
- Assist with the solution development/architectural design to meet specific customer needs.
- Analyze customer product solutions and evaluate product performance based on market requirements.
- Understand and articulate AMD based technology offerings across multiple verticals (e.g. Storage, Networking, Telco, Embedded)
- Partner with other AMD and vendor domain specialists to build specific customer solutions.
- Install and test solutions in-house, as required, to ensure successful deployments and evaluations.
- Lead technical engagements with customers to support design win opportunities.
- Architect and detail technical solutions that are aligned with customer objectives.
- Lead efforts to define, scope and document technical requirements and customer expectations for opportunities of interest.
- Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to customer development and software teams.
- Define, implement, and manage customer evaluations and Proof of Concepts as needed to demonstrate AMD product features and performance.
- Be a credible authority to OEM on direct and indirect product capabilities.
- Cloud and datacenter computing
- Data management and analytics (Spark, Oracle, SAP)
- High Performance Computing (HPL, SPEC, STREAM, OpenMP/MPI)
- Software Defined Storage (IOMeter, IOZone, HDFS, CEPH)
- Proven experience in server platform architecture and/or platform development experience
- Firm understanding of platform development process from concept to production.
- Proficient in server software ecosystem (ie: OS/Hypervisors, Compilers, Libraries, debug tools, development tools and validation workloads).
- Knowledgeable in platform firmware features (BIOS, BMC, SMU).
- Hands-on experience and strong expertise in server hardware ecosystem at the node, rack and datacenter level.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the setup and configuration of server systems including software, networking and storage infrastructure.
- Experience with virtualization technology and one or more hypervisor solutions
- Someone with the desire to continuously learn