GPU Stack Unified Build & release platform Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. 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. THE ROLE: AMD's AI software stack is moving fast — and keeping pace means shipping complete, validated GPU stack releases to customers as quickly as the software can evolve. Today, that release velocity is limited by the coordination overhead between layers: firmware, kernel driver, and ROCm each have their own build systems, their own workflows, and no shared release baseline. Every customer delivery requires manual effort to assemble and validate a coherent recipe across all three, and lower-level components — firmware and kernel — are increasingly the bottleneck to getting the full stack out the door. We're building the infrastructure to change that: a unified build and CI platform that treats the complete GPU stack as a single deliverable, built from source, validated together, and releasable on demand. The result is faster time-to-customer for validated, fully-supported GPU stack releases — without sacrificing the stability that product lines depend on.

Requirements

Deep software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership at the director or fellow level
Deep technical range across build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, and software release pipelines — credible with senior ICs, fluent with engineering executives
Track record of driving large-scale infrastructure or platform modernization across multiple teams with competing priorities
Experience sequencing technical change in a way that protects active product commitments — you know how to be bold about direction while being careful about disruption
Executive-level communication: able to frame technical tradeoffs as business decisions, build alignment across stakeholders, and hold accountability for outcomes at an organizational level
Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing small teams in a greenfield or PoC context
Fluency with agentic AI workflows (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, etc.) — both as a personal productivity multiplier and as a capability you actively develop in your team
Experience with firmware, kernel, or embedded software release pipelines and their specific constraints
Familiarity with GitHub Actions, self-hosted CI infrastructure, and cloud-based build environments (AWS)
Experience driving adoption of shift-left development practices across large engineering organizations

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or PhD in related discipline preferred. Equivalent professional experience demonstrating engineering expertise will also be considered.

Responsibilities

Technical direction for the unified build and release platform — from PoC architecture decisions through phased production rollout, you'll set the direction and be accountable for the outcome. You'll have senior ICs executing against that direction; your job is to make sure the strategy is right and stays right as the platform matures.
Executive alignment on phased rollout — the transition to a unified platform cannot delay active product shipments. You'll work directly with executives and product line owners to design a rollout sequence that delivers value incrementally, identifies and mitigates risk at each phase, and builds organizational confidence in the new platform before dependencies on the old one are removed.
Organizational change across firmware, kernel, and ROCm teams — unifying the build and release process for 1,000+ developers requires more than good tooling. You'll work with component team leads and engineering directors to align on new workflows, build the cultural shift toward shift-left development and trunk health, and get organizational buy-in at the right level.
Tiger team leadership — you'll directly lead the senior engineers building the platform, including the Build Architect and CI Infrastructure Engineer. You'll keep them unblocked, make the cross-cutting technical calls, and ensure the build and CI workstreams converge into a coherent system.
Code at ~50% — and mean it — for this role, this is a real commitment, not a line in a job description. You'll own meaningful parts of the platform yourself, not just review others' work. We're at a pivotal moment in the industry: agentic AI tools are genuinely changing what it means to be a technical leader, and the best engineering teams are being led by people who are in it alongside them. If you've drifted away from coding over the years but are ready to re-engage — especially with AI as a force multiplier getting you back up to speed — we want to talk. What matters is the commitment, not whether you've been shipping code every week.
Sharpen your agentic AI engineering leadership — this platform has a scope (65+ firmware components, 1,000+ developers, multi-layer GPU stack) that demands agentic AI as a genuine force multiplier, not a productivity experiment. You'll be setting the example for how senior technical leaders use these tools, developing that capability in your team, and building an organization that moves faster because of it.
Own a strategic area end-to-end — from PoC through production rollout, across build systems and CI, across firmware and kernel and ROCm, across the tiger team and the executive stakeholders. Full ownership, full accountability.
Direct line to customer impact — the platform you build determines how quickly AMD can put validated GPU stack releases in front of customers. That's a board-level concern and you'll be the person driving it.
Organizational change at scale — this is a rare opportunity to shift how a major hardware company builds and releases its GPU stack, with the executive support and mandate to make it stick.
Open-source aligned — this work follows the same shift-left, trunk-health principles driving AMD's ROCm open-source direction, with visibility into AMD's most strategic hardware and software programs.