Fellow, AI Software Architecture

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

21h

About The Position

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. AMD AI Group is seeking a highly influential technical leader for the role of AMD Fellow in the ROCm software for New Product Initiatives. This role requires driving architecture, innovation, and developing next generation products across AMD’s broad portfolio, serving Instinct, Radeon, Ryzen, Embedded, Gaming and Autonomous Driving product lines. The ideal candidate will shape the end-to-end ROCm software strategy and influence the full stack spanning compilers, kernels, runtime, libraries, models, frameworks, and performance optimization layers. A key expectation is strong hardware/software co-design leadership to maximize performance, efficiency, scalability, and programmability across diverse AMD products and workloads. You are a strong technical leader who is able to work across organizations, align architecture with product goals, and influence both near-term execution and long-term roadmap decisions. You bring deep expertise in at least one major area of the stack, while also demonstrating the curiosity, adaptability, and technical breadth to learn new domains, grow their impact, and influence the broader ecosystem. As a successful candidate, you are recognized for technical excellence, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive company-wide innovation through collaboration across silicon, system software, AI/ML frameworks, libraries, and application enablement teams.

Requirements

Knowledge in GPU architectures, basic knowledge of CPU architecture
Experience in AI/ML software stack spanning compilers, kernels, runtime, libraries, models, frameworks, and performance optimization layers
Understanding of GPU programming such as ROCm, CUDA, OpenCL, etc
Experience in hardware/software co-design, building high-performance products across the full product lifecycle.
Undergrad degree required. Bachelor of Science, Masters, or PhD degree with emphasis in Electrical Engineering, Computer architecture, or Computer Science with relevant experience preferred

Nice To Haves

Experience with operating systems (OS) and device driver development is a plus

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Set the technical vision and roadmap for AI software stack across all AMD products, ensuring AMD remains the platform of choice for top-tier AI customers.
Hardware-Software Co-design: Collaborate across hardware architecture, compiler, math libraries, kernel and framework teams to influence future silicon features based on evolving AI workload trends.
Workload Performance Engineering: Lead the profiling, analysis, and tuning of large-scale models (LLMs, Diffusion, Multimodal, and MoE) to ensure "out-of-the-box" performance excellence on AMD hardware.
Ecosystem Innovation: Drive the development of advanced tools and frameworks for performance estimation, modeling, and automated reporting.
Customer Engagement: Partner with top customers and hyperscalers to understand their unique workload requirements and deliver tailored architectural wins and software optimizations.
Community & Mentorship: Act as a technical ambassador in industry forums and open-source communities. Mentor and inspire the next generation of AMD’s technical leaders and engineers.