Systems Design Engineer (AI, Software)

Advanced Micro Devices, IncSan Jose, CA
Hybrid

About The Position

AMD is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to help develop and optimize machine learning workloads on next-generation AMD AI accelerators. In this role, you will work at the intersection of hardware and software, designing high-performance ML operator kernels, optimizing dataflow pipelines, and enabling industry-leading AI inference performance across AMD NPU and GPU platforms. You will collaborate closely with compiler, runtime, silicon, and architecture teams while helping bring cutting-edge AI technologies from concept to production. This role offers full-stack visibility from kernel development and model optimization through hardware validation and silicon bring-up. If you are passionate about AI systems, accelerator architectures, and solving complex performance challenges, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact on products deployed in millions of devices worldwide.

Requirements

  • Strong software development experience using C/C++ and Python.
  • Experience with parallel programming, multithreaded applications, and performance optimization.
  • Knowledge of machine learning inference workloads and common operators such as GEMM, convolution, attention, and softmax.
  • Familiarity with AI frameworks and runtimes such as PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, ROCm, or similar technologies.
  • Understanding of computer architecture, memory hierarchies, cache behavior, and accelerator programming models.
  • Experience developing software for GPUs, NPUs, AI accelerators, or other high-performance computing platforms.
  • Experience using development, debugging, profiling, and source control tools in Linux environments.
  • Familiarity with MLIR, LLVM, compiler technologies, or related software stacks.
  • Exposure to quantization techniques, including INT8, FP8, FP16, or BF16 optimization.
  • Knowledge of dataflow architectures, systolic arrays, or custom accelerator designs.
  • Publications, patents, or demonstrated technical contributions in machine learning systems, computer architecture, or related fields.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimize machine learning operator kernels and dataflow libraries for AMD AI accelerators.
  • Profile workloads, identify performance bottlenecks, and drive software and system-level optimizations.
  • Enable and validate ML models within production inference frameworks and runtime environments.
  • Collaborate with compiler, runtime, architecture, and silicon teams to deliver high-performance AI solutions.
  • Debug and resolve issues spanning kernel implementation, runtime integration, model accuracy, and hardware bring-up.
  • Contribute to hardware-software co-design efforts by evaluating architectural tradeoffs and influencing future accelerator technologies.
  • Drive innovation in performance methodologies, benchmarking, tooling, and AI system optimization.

Benefits

  • AMD benefits at a glance.
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