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Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with strategic customers to understand requirements, solve ambiguous technical problems, and identify opportunities for AMD hardware and software.
- Close software-stack gaps required to support customer solutions.
- Optimize collective communication primitives on GPU accelerators using NCCL and RCCL.
- Develop and deliver solutions hands-on with customers from proof of concept through production.
- Translate customer needs and field insights into feedback for AMD’s AI roadmap.
- Use Agentic AI to improve productivity, automate workflows, and increase operational efficiency.
- Apply data-informed analysis to target optimization efforts, debug existing issues, and research more efficient approaches.
- Track software and hardware trends, particularly algorithms and architecture.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
- Experience with GPU kernel programming using CUDA or HIP.
- Expertise with modern LLM serving frameworks such as vLLM and SGLang.
- Experience implementing and optimizing attention and KV-cache primitives on GPU accelerators.
- Strong CPU and GPU performance analysis and optimization skills.
- Direct client engagement experience solving ambiguous technical problems.
- Experience with open-source software development, community maintainers, and submitting contributions.
- Experience communicating project status and other key information to executive leadership.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
Benefits
- Benefits are described in AMD’s benefits at a glance materials.
About AMD
AMD designs and sells CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive/embedded computing products for PCs, data centers, gaming, and edge devices. Its portfolio includes Ryzen and EPYC processors, Radeon and Instinct graphics, and adaptive SoCs from its Xilinx acquisition, sold to OEMs, cloud providers, and device makers. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company on NASDAQ and supplies semi-custom chips for major game consoles.