Director, Frontier AI Research & Partnerships

AMD
Santa Clara
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 246,400 - 369,600 annuallyFunction: Business Development & PartnershipsEducation: phdSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","Strategic thinking","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead AMD’s frontier AI research collaborations with frontier AI labs and strategic model-development partners. Own the technical research agenda across multiple partnerships spanning reinforcement learning and large-scale model training, GPU programming, and kernel/PPA optimization. Build and mentor a team of AI researchers and research engineers, translate model needs into AMD hardware and software roadmap inputs, establish IP-preserving collaboration architectures, and set measurable partnership goals.

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Director, Frontier AI Research & Partnerships

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Job Summary

Lead AMD’s frontier AI research collaborations with frontier AI labs and strategic model-development partners. Own the technical research agenda across multiple partnerships spanning reinforcement learning and large-scale model training, GPU programming, and kernel/PPA optimization. Build and mentor a team of AI researchers and research engineers, translate model needs into AMD hardware and software roadmap inputs, establish IP-preserving collaboration architectures, and set measurable partnership goals.
Location: Santa Clara
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Business Development & Partnerships
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and own AI research strategy for strategic lab partnerships, aligning joint technical roadmaps with AMD hardware and software priorities.
  • •Build, lead, and mentor a team of AI researchers and research engineers, setting research direction, hiring bar, and technical excellence standards.
  • •Act as AMD’s senior research counterpart to partner labs on reinforcement learning, model training, and large-scale systems.
  • •Drive joint research programs covering RL training pipelines (e.g., async RL, importance sampling, reward modeling), GPU programming, kernel and PPA optimization, and frontier model performance on AMD platforms.
  • •Translate frontier-model requirements into prioritized inputs to AMD’s hardware roadmap and software stack, establishing IP-preserving collaboration architectures and measurable partnership goals.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 246,400 - 369,600 annually

Key Requirements

  • •PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent research experience with demonstrated impact.
  • •Demonstrated technical leadership in AI/ML research with impactful published work and/or research shipped into production or frontier models.
  • •Deep, current expertise in reinforcement learning and/or large-scale model training, GPU programming, and AI systems/performance optimization.
  • •Experience leading research teams and setting technical direction across multiple concurrent programs.
  • •Ability to remain hands-on with training pipelines, kernels, or research prototyping while leading a team, and to communicate effectively with executives and partners.
Experience:AI/MLFrontier AIReinforcement learning
Education:PhD / Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or related field
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringStrategic thinkingCross-functional collaboration
Languages:En-us
Tech Stack:Reinforcement learningLarge-scale model trainingGPU programmingTraining pipelinesKernelsPPA optimizationAsync RLImportance samplingReward modelingFrontier model performanceConfidential compute

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
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