Forward‑Deployed AI Engineer: Prototyping & Tools

Advanced Micro Devices; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AMD Benefits

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices in Santa Clara, CA, is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to build prototypes, tools, and evaluation loops that turn AI opportunities into working engineering systems. This hands-on, field-facing role collaborates with internal teams and strategic partners to translate workflows into measurable results.

You will convert stakeholder pain points into scoped experiments, integrate with engineering environments, and feed learnings back to research and platform teams, while

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering in Python and C++, TypeScript, HIP, or CUDA.
• Experience building AI-enabled applications, ML systems, developer tools, automation, or prototypes for expert users.
• Ability to integrate with complex tools, APIs, logs, and internal engineering environments.
• Strong debugging, systems thinking, and ability to move from ambiguous requirements to working software.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineering stakeholders, researchers, partner teams, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build forward- deployed AI prototypes and production‑oriented workflows for engineering teams and strategic partners.
• Integrate LLMs and agents with real engineering tools such as compilers, profilers, test harnesses, simulators, validation systems, knowledge bases, dashboards, and ticketing systems.
• Translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into working software, clear evals, and measurable proof points.
• Design and maintain evaluation harnesses, benchmark workflows, logging, dashboards, and reproducible experiment pipelines.
• Partner with AI researchers to test new methods in realistic environments and identify where models, tools, prompts, rewards, or data need improvement.
• Support strategic technical engagements by preparing demos, prototypes, technical documentation, and implementation plans.
• Improve adoption by making tools easy for engineers to run, inspect, debug, and trust.
• Capture reusable patterns from field deployments and feed them into shared infrastructure, libraries, and best practices.

Skills

Python

C++

TypeScript

CUDA

LLM agents

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/CE/EE

Master's preferred

Tools

APIs

Profilers

Docker

Kubernetes

Build systems

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices in Santa Clara, CA, is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to build prototypes, tools, and evaluation loops that turn AI opportunities into working engineering systems. This hands-on, field-facing role collaborates with internal teams and strategic partners to translate workflows into measurable results.

You will convert stakeholder pain points into scoped experiments, integrate with engineering environments, and feed learnings back to research and platform teams, while