Principal Data Center GPU Performance Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

18h

About The Position

AMD is looking for an experienced software engineering lead who is passionate about improving the performance of the leading AI models and agentic workloads. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

Requirements

Strong software engineering background with extensive low-level experience debugging complex platform and rack-level performance bottlenecks.
Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.
Extensive experience with low-level GPU performance optimization
Experience debugging complex system level software bottlenecks
Experience debugging multi-node communication and perf bottlenecks
Strong object-oriented programming background, C/C++ preferred
Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
Effective communication and problem-solving skills
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Nice To Haves

Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus

Responsibilities

Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies
Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
Develop technical relationships with peers and partners