Director, Unified GPU Build & Release Platform

AMD; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in San Jose, CA seeks a Director-level leader to own a large-scale build and release platform across firmware, kernel, and ROCm. You will drive architecture decisions, coordinate executives, and guide a tiger team of engineers to accelerate validated GPU stack releases while maintaining stability.

You will spend ~50% coding, mentoring senior engineers, and shaping cross-team workflows. This role emphasizes strategic change with executive sponsorship and open-source alignment.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership of director-level or higher with technical credibility.
• Experience shaping large-scale infrastructure or platform modernization across teams.
• Ability to sequence technical change while protecting active product commitments.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Technical direction for the unified build and release platform from PoC to production.
• Align executives and product owners on phased rollout to preserve shipments.
• Drive organizational change across firmware, kernel, and ROCm teams.
• Lead the tiger team and unblock senior engineers, coordinating cross-workstreams.
• Hands-on coding ~50% to exemplify leadership and drive critical work.
• Advance agentic AI workflows as a productivity multiplier for the org.
• Own end-to-end strategy and ensure customer impact and timely releases.

Skills

Executive leadership

Software engineering

Architecture decisions

CI/CD infrastructure

Agentic AI fluency

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Master’s degree or PhD in related discipline

Tools

GitHub Actions

Self-hosted CI

AWS cloud environments

Job description

AMD in San Jose, CA seeks a Director-level leader to own a large-scale build and release platform across firmware, kernel, and ROCm. You will drive architecture decisions, coordinate executives, and guide a tiger team of engineers to accelerate validated GPU stack releases while maintaining stability.

You will spend ~50% coding, mentoring senior engineers, and shaping cross-team workflows. This role emphasizes strategic change with executive sponsorship and open-source alignment.