Director of AI Research & Systems Innovation

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Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 250,000 - 420,000

Full time

14 days+
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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

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