Senior Applied Research Scientist
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. THE ROLE: We are looking for a Senior Applied Research Scientist who is 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, RL, and aligning large language and multimodal models, in addition to keeping up-to-date to the latest progress and trends in LLM/LMM and foundation models. THE PERSON: The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.
Requirements
- Experience in developing and debugging in Python.
- Experience in ML Framework such as PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow
- Experience with distributed training.
- Expertise on LLM/LMM pretraining, finetuning, and/or RL.
- Expertise on transformer architecture.
- Strong publication record in top tier conferences and journals.
- A PhD degree or equivalent in machine learning, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Train, finetune, and RL for 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.
Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
