The scale sets the context. AMD closed FY2025 with $34.6 billion in revenue, up 34 percent, and reported roughly 31,000 employees globally as of December 27, 2025 in its FY2025 Form 10-K, filed February 4, 2026, up from roughly 28,000 as of December 28, 2024. That is roughly 3,000 net additions through fiscal 2025, so AMD is net hiring, not shrinking.
Q2 2026, reported August 4, 2026, shows where. Revenue was $11.5 billion, up 50 percent, a record. Data Center was $6.7 billion, up 107 percent, and now 58 percent of total company revenue. Client was $3.1 billion, up 23 percent. Embedded was $977 million, up 19 percent. Gaming was $779 million, down 31 percent. Read that mix before you pick a role family, because the demand is not evenly spread across the company.
Geography follows the same logic. Of the 1,186 requisitions live on AMD's own careers API on August 21, 2026, the United States had 639, India 184, Taiwan 71, Canada 68, and Malaysia 59. The top cities were Austin with 276, San Jose 163, Santa Clara 132, Bangalore 124, Hyderabad 56, Markham 56, and Penang 55. Austin and San Jose alone carry more than a third of the openings.
The AI capacity deals explain the Data Center curve: OpenAI at 6 gigawatts announced October 6, 2025, Meta at 6 gigawatts on February 24, 2026 with no dollar value stated by AMD, and Anthropic at up to 2 gigawatts on July 22, 2026 alongside an AMD equity investment of up to $5 billion. On the acquisition side, Silo AI closed August 12, 2024, adding about 300 people including 125 AI scientist PhDs, and ZT Systems closed March 31, 2025 for $4.9 billion, with its manufacturing business divested to Sanmina in a deal closing October 27, 2025. ZT is therefore a headcount split, and no reliable ZT headcount number survives it.
Two things to state plainly rather than imply. The only verified AMD layoff is about 4 percent of the workforce, roughly 1,000 employees, on November 13, 2024, and there is no published 2025 or 2026 layoff figure. And on return to office, AMD's FY2025 10-K says it provides flexibility with in-person, hybrid and remote work as options for its employees, with no day-count mandate published anywhere.
So position segment by segment. A resume aimed at Data Center silicon, verification, or kernel work is aimed at the part of AMD that more than doubled. Carry that role family's vocabulary, put your strongest quantified ownership in the top third where the iCIMS parse and the recruiter both look first, and let the numbers carry the claim.