AMD

4 months ago

Principal Software Development Eng. - AI Performance

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Job Summary

Lead a hands-on engineering team to improve performance and scalability of frontier AI workloads on AMD GPUs, spanning GPU kernels, frameworks, and distributed serving. Define long-term AI workload strategy, own cross-stack performance challenges, mentor engineers, and influence open-source AI frameworks while collaborating across hardware, software, and research teams.

Location: San Jose

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead a small team of engineers: set technical direction, prioritize work, and ensure delivery while remaining deeply hands-on
•Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for AI workload performance on AMD GPUs
•Own the most complex cross-stack performance challenges, from kernel optimization to framework-level architecture decisions
•Lead the design and implementation of novel GPU kernels, compiler optimizations, and framework features
•Influence upstream roadmaps in major open-source AI frameworks and drive architecture decisions for emerging inference paradigms

Key Requirements

•10+ years of software development experience in GPU computing, HPC, or AI systems
•Deep understanding of GPU micro-architecture, memory hierarchy, instruction scheduling, and performance tradeoffs
•Deep understanding of end-to-end AI systems: model architectures, inference paradigms, and system/rack-level design
•Understanding of multi-GPU communication: scale-up and scale-out topologies and performance characteristics
•Strong proficiency in C++ (C++17 or later) and Python

Experience:GPU computingHPCAI systems

Education:Master's

Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:CUDAHIPOpenCLTritonGluonCUTLASSCKLLVMMLIRPythonC++

Company Brief

AMD

Designs and produces semiconductor products including CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive SoCs for consumer, enterprise, and embedded markets, competing across PCs, data centers, and gaming industries.

Industry: Electronics Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States

Founded: 1969

Glassdoor: 3.9

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