Senior Manager - HPC & AI System Application Performance Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

21h•Hybrid

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. At AMD, we push the boundaries of high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization, the technologies driving AI, gaming, and the data center. We're looking for computational science leaders to help prepare applications for the world's most powerful supercomputers across industry, academia, and national labs. The AMD HPC & Sovereign AI applications team seeks a strong, experienced, collaborative leader with sharp technical skills to lead a highly educated and motivated team from the front in a hands-on manner. The candidate needs to have a demonstrated track record of development and leadership. The ability to interact with customers and partners is essential. You will work closely with stakeholders, diverse teams within AMD, external code owners, and customers to lead a development team in delivering high quality and performant HPC and AI applications for use on AMD GPU products.

Requirements

PhD or equivalent accomplishments in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering or related scientific computing domains
A successful candidate must be eligible for a U.S. Department of Energy Q-level access authorization.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated track record of software team management
Technical expertise in foundational science, computer science, computer architecture, or computational mathematics, and experience in one or more of the following domains: Computational Chemistry, Computational Geophysics, Oil and Gas applications, Weather Modelling, Applied Mathematics, AI/ML
Experience with JIRA or similar project management environment, ideally in an Agile software development environment.
Experience with HPC and AI software stacks
Experience managing and collaborating across a geographically distributed team (AMD has sites across North America, in Europe, and Asia)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations
Experience with large machine procurement processes and export control compliance is a plus

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of talented scientific domain experts, computational scientists, and performance optimization engineers to adapt and optimize HPC and AI applications to perform on AMD hardware
Lead full system application performance attainment for Exascale-class customers
Lead and coordinate technical content for customer RFPs and business proposals
Drive the delivery of Exascale ready applications to AMD business units and customers
Manage internal HPC development system admins to support the team’s work
Interact with stakeholders to establish program requirements and schedules
Work with other AMD teams to continuously improve AMD development software products