GPU Kernel Development Engineer (Fellow)
About The Position
At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career. As a Fellow, you will be accountable for defining and driving the end-to-end software optimization strategy to achieve industry-leading performance for our top-tier customers. You will play a pivotal role in GPU architecture feature design, usage, API design, optimization, and deployment.
Requirements
- Talented and motivated GPU kernel developer with broad and deep experience in compute and machine learning software development to deliver out of the box high performance ROCm core software to our customers.
- Strong collaborator who is open to continuous learning and is excited about innovative solutions for ML and HPC on GPUs.
Nice To Haves
- Strong understanding of modern model architectures (Transformer, Attention, KV Cache) and optimization techniques like quantization, speculative decoding, and FlashAttention.
- Excellent GPU architecture knowledge, performance analysis, algorithm development, and machine learning experience
- Proven history of optimizing GPU kernels with advanced algorithms and across entire AI software stack.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Responsibilities
- Perform external benchmarking and research to define opportunities to improve GPU kernel performance on AMD machine learning products
- Analyze and optimize the performance of GPU kernels, providing insight on optimization paths across the AI software stack.
- Partner with top customers and hyperscalers to understand their unique workload requirements and deliver tailored architectural wins and software optimizations.
- Collaborate across hardware architecture, compiler, and framework teams to influence future silicon features based on evolving AI workload trends.
- Communicate and collaborate with key technical experts across AMD and with our partners and customers to improve ROCm applications, libraries, and tools, as well as hardware
Benefits
- AMD benefits at a glance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
