AI & HPC Education and Research Specialist (AMD University Program)
About The Position
At AMD, the mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. The company fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, believing in bold ideas, human ingenuity, and a shared passion to create extraordinary things. Joining AMD means being part of a culture that pushes innovation limits to solve important challenges, striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive. The role involves working with AMD's strong portfolio of High Performance and Adaptive Computing products, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoCs, to deliver solutions for cloud, edge, and intelligent end devices, accelerating workloads from AI to smart networking and software-defined infrastructure. The University Program team, part of the AMD Research and Advanced Development group, aims to empower academic teaching and research by providing access to the latest technology, developing and delivering teaching/training workshops, creating open-source software/hardware projects, organizing academic contests/hackathons, and enabling new business/technical partnerships. This is a highly collaborative and travel-focused role, supporting academic partners across the USA, North America, and internationally. The specialist will regularly travel to universities, conferences, and training events to work directly with faculty and students, working hands-on with the latest hardware and software to support and streamline engineering and business processes while delivering an excellent experience to academic customers.
Requirements
- Experience in Data Science, AI/ML infrastructure or applications development including programming GPUs with HIP/CUDA or AI frameworks, such as PyTorch
- Familiarity with AMD High Performance Computing software and hardware development tools, and corresponding computer architecture concepts
- Experience developing and delivering training courses
- Experience with general software programming, development, and test processes
- Experience working in academic research/teaching setting, or alternatively, working as product, applications, or customer support engineer
- Strong oral and written communication, and excellent interpersonal skills: comfortable working with cross-functional, remote teams
- Strong problem-solving skills, being a self-starter capable of working with minimal supervision and leading new initiatives
- Demonstrated willingness and ability to travel frequently for on site university visits, conferences, and training delivery
- Master's degree, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering/Sciences, or related fields, or equivalent preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with some/most/all of the following technologies: AI: LLM, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
- Experience with some/most/all of the following technologies: Programming Language: C/C++, Python
- Experience with some/most/all of the following technologies: Programming Model: HIP/ROCm/CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, BLAS
- Experience with some/most/all of the following technologies: DevOps: Kubernetes, Slurm
- Involvement with open-source community
- Experience publishing and presenting technical papers at conferences
Responsibilities
- Enabling the use of AI and High Performance Computing technologies in academia through regular on site engagement with universities and research institutions, based in the USA.
- Creating teaching materials, labs, design examples, demos, and application notes for use in on site and conference based training
- Delivering in person and remote technical training workshops to professors and graduate students at universities, conferences, and company hosted events
- Collaborating with faculty and students on research and teaching programs
- Supporting and representing the company at conferences, trade shows, and academic events
- Supporting academic customer queries and technical issues
- Contributing to the specification, evaluation, and development of systems for academic use
- Travel is a significant part of this role and may be approximately 25 to 50 percent, including domestic and occasional international travel.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
