Director of AI Research & Systems Innovation

Socket.dev; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a Director of AI Research to set and lead a research program at the intersection of frontier AI and AMD silicon. This senior role will turn broad research into a focused, high-impact agenda aligned with our hardware and software roadmap.

You will build and lead a team of AI researchers and research engineers, drive strategy across reinforcement learning, model training, and AI-for-systems, and partner with internal and external collaborators to translate research into real product

Qualifications

• Demonstrated technical leadership in AI/ML research with impact
• Experience leading research teams and setting technical direction
• Strong understanding of hardware–software stack for large-model training
• Hands-on with training pipelines, prototyping, or systems work

Responsibilities

• Define and own a coherent AI research agenda spanning reinforcement learning, model training, and AI-for-systems
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-caliber team of AI researchers and research engineers; set direction and standards
• Prioritize research opportunities to maximize impact for AMD’s hardware and software roadmap
• Translate research into tangible product advantages by strengthening external partnerships
• Represent AMD’s research agenda to executives and external collaborators; communicate results and trade-offs

Skills

Technical leadership

AI/ML research

Team building

Strategic direction

Hands-on ML pipelines

Education

PhD in CS/EE/ML

Job description

AMD is seeking a Director of AI Research to set and lead a research program at the intersection of frontier AI and AMD silicon. This senior role will turn broad research into a focused, high-impact agenda aligned with our hardware and software roadmap.

You will build and lead a team of AI researchers and research engineers, drive strategy across reinforcement learning, model training, and AI-for-systems, and partner with internal and external collaborators to translate research into real product