Staff Technical Marketing (applications) Engineer- Embedded X86

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · San Jose, CA · Engineering

This role is for a Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at AMD, focusing on x86-based processing systems for embedded applications. The engineer will be responsible for customer enablement, field engagement, developing reference designs, providing technical support, running benchmarks, and creating technical documentation and training materials. The role requires deep technical expertise in system architecture, hardware, firmware, and low-level software, with strong programming skills in Python, Perl, C/C++, and assembly. While the company is a major player in AI hardware and mentions AI in the JD, this specific role is focused on the underlying x86 systems and customer enablement rather than direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define, develop, and demonstrate customer reference designs, demos, and example x86 platforms
  2. Provide technical support to customers deploying x86‑based systems
  3. Run industry‑standard benchmarks and present results to customers, field engineering, and internal stakeholders
  4. Develop and execute tests to measure system‑level performance, including bandwidth and latency, across multiple workloads
  5. Build, configure, and test systems using Linux

Skills

Required

  • In-depth system-level understanding of embedded and x86-based processing systems
  • Strong expertise in x86 CPU architecture and system operation
  • Solid understanding of hardware design, including schematics and hardware analysis
  • Board bring-up experience, including hands-on hardware-level debugging
  • Experience with Linux, BIOS, UEFI, and bootloaders
  • Working knowledge of industry-standard interfaces and technologies
  • Fully self-sufficient in software development, including coding and debugging
  • Strong programming skills with Python, Perl, C/C++, and assembly
  • Proven ability to write application notes, white papers, and customer-facing technical documentation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills

Nice to have

  • Prior experience in technical marketing, systems engineering, or customer-facing engineering roles
  • Experience supporting enterprise or embedded x86 platforms
  • Background working directly with customers or field engineering organizations
  • Familiarity with performance analysis, benchmarking methodologies, and system optimization

What the JD emphasized

  • highly technical
  • deep technical expertise
  • hands-on hardware and software
  • fully self-sufficient in software development
  • strong programming skills