Sr AI Software Development Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Santa Clara, CA

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. Would you like to be part of a world class team enabling software for world class datacenters and the mightiest supercomputers? AMD is searching for talented and highly motivated AI Software Engineers to join our team of developers pushing the boundaries of efficiency and performance to enable and optimize the software ecosystem for the next generation of GPU computational accelerators. Our team has an unparalleled perspective of the AI landscape. We work with the industry’s most sophisticated clients to help them leverage the latest hardware capabilities for their AI use cases. As part of our team, you will be among the first in the world to combine the newest hardware with the industry’s latest applications, libraries, frameworks, and SDKs to push the limits of innovation and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled AI Software Engineer to join our team. You will work with a team of Software Engineers to enable DL models, libraries, and applications for Instinct GPUs in both on-prem and Cloud environments. Candidates should be strong in Python and/or C++. Candidates should also have experience analyzing and optimizing the performance of AI software and understand hardware bottlenecks and harness performance to hit close to roofline. Must be self-motivated and possess the ability to work well within a team environment.

Requirements

Strong programming skills in C++ and Python
Strong development experience is at least one major DL framework such as Pytorch or Tensorflow in inference, fine tuning and/or training
MS or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related equivalent.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills root-causing/addressing performance issues.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Willingness to learn skills, tools, and methods to advance the quality, consistency, and timeliness of AMD software products.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing software and system-level performance optimizations with a solid architecture understanding in GPUs a plus
Experience with open-source software development including collaboration with community maintainers and submitting contributions is a plus
Publications in reputed peer-reviewed ML conferences/journals a plus
Expertise in profiling tools across the AI SW Stack (Torchprofiler, RocM profiler, Vtune, Nsight)
Experience in implementing and optimizing parallel methods on GPU accelerators (NCCL/RCCL, OpenMP, MPI)
Performance analysis skills for both CPU and GPU
Experience with Singularity, Docker, and/or Kubernetes.
Experience providing clear and timely communication related to status and other key aspects of the project to leadership team.