Applied Research Scientist

Advanced Micro Devices • San Jose, CA

390d • Hybrid

About The Position

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences - the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. We are looking for an Applied Research Scientist experienced with training large language models and/or large multimodal models. In this role, you will explore novel LLM/LMM architectures and large-scale training techniques to advance the state-of-the-arts. You will be part of a world-class research team working on pre-training, fine-tuning, and aligning large language and multimodal models, in addition to keeping up to date on the latest progress and trends in LLM/LMM and foundation models.

Requirements

• Expertise and hands-on experience on training LLMs/LMMs.
• Familiar with hyper-parameter tuning techniques.
• Knowledgeable with latest transformer architectures.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in developing and debugging in Python.
• Experienced with text-to-image / text-to-video / image-to-text or video-to-text models.
• Experience in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow.
• Experience with distributed training.
• Expertise on LLM/LMM pretraining, finetuning, and/or RLHF.
• Strong publication record in top tier conferences and journals.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Train and finetune LLMs/LMMs.
• Improve on the state-of-the-art LLMs/LMMs.
• Accelerate the training and inference speed of LLMs/LMMs.
• Research novel ML techniques and model architectures.
• Influence the direction of AMD AI platform.
• Publish your work at top-tier venues.
• Engage with academia and open-source ML communities.

Benefits

• Base pay depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Eligibility for incentives such as annual bonus or sales incentive.
• Opportunity to own shares of AMD stock.
• Discount when purchasing AMD stock through Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Competitive benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees