Forward-Deployed GenAI Inference Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 550,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the FDE team.

You will work directly with strategic partners to enable and optimize GenAI inference workloads on AMD data center CPUs and GPUs, bridging AI models and hardware for peak performance. In this customer-facing role, you will profile workloads, implement kernel optimizations, and contribute to open-source frameworks while leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development and debugging across the

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in CS or EEE with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Expert in GPU architecture and performance optimization.
• Experience with AMD ROCm (or CUDA) and GPU kernel development.
• Proficient in Python and C++ for kernel development.
• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools and LLM inference frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers as part of the FDE team to enable and optimize GenAI inference workloads on AMD Instinct GPUs, meeting performance and accuracy targets.
• Develop and tune low-level GPU kernels (Triton, HIP, CUDA) for attention, MoE, GEMM, quantization, and normalization operations.
• Profile end-to-end workloads, identify bottlenecks across GPU/CPU boundaries, and deliver throughput and latency improvements.
• Debug complex runtime, stability, and accuracy issues in production environments; collaborate with core engineering teams to fix root causes.
• Contribute optimizations back to open-source frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, ATOM, AITER) and internal libraries; produce production-ready artifacts.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, debugging, optimization, and code review across the inference stack.

Skills

GPU architecture

Performance optimization

Python

C++

Kernel development

AI-assisted coding tools

LLM inference frameworks

Transformer & MoE architectures

Profiling tools

Distributed inference

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or EEE

Tools

Triton

HIP

CUDA

rocProfiler

ROCdebug-agent

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the FDE team.

You will work directly with strategic partners to enable and optimize GenAI inference workloads on AMD data center CPUs and GPUs, bridging AI models and hardware for peak performance. In this customer-facing role, you will profile workloads, implement kernel optimizations, and contribute to open-source frameworks while leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development and debugging across the