Lead AI Performance & Tools Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a senior AI performance architect to shape product direction and benchmarking strategy for AI software across AMD platforms.

You will partner with engineering, architecture, and customers to ensure high performance, usability, and value across inference and training workloads. You will translate complex customer needs into actionable requirements, develop robust benchmark methodologies, and influence roadmaps for profiling, runtimes, and developer

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, systems architecture, and performance engineering for AI/ML infrastructure.
• Ability to translate customer needs into actionable product requirements and roadmaps.
• Strong grasp of benchmarking methodologies and performance storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy for AI performance analysis, benchmarking, profiling, optimization, and tools across AMD platforms.
• Partner with customers and internal teams to define product requirements, roadmaps, and success criteria for AI performance.
• Analyze inference and training workloads to identify bottlenecks and recommend architectural improvements.
• Develop rigorous performance narratives, benchmark methodologies, workload characterization, and competitive analysis.
• Influence roadmaps for profiling, debuggability, compilers, runtimes, and tooling across AMD's AI software ecosystem.
• Translate customer requirements into prioritized engineering features and optimizations.
• Engage with customers, cloud providers, OEMs, ISVs, and open-source communities to understand workflows and tooling needs.
• Define reference workflows and reproducible methodologies for optimizing AI models and apps.
• Collaborate with developer relations, solutions architecture, marketing, and sales to communicate AMD's capabilities and accelerate adoption.
• Represent AMD in customer briefings, technical forums, and industry events.

Skills

Performance profiling

Benchmarking

Systems architecture

Customer empathy

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Open-source contributions

Product strategy

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE/Business or related

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

ONNX Runtime

vLLM

CUDA

HIP

Kubernetes

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a senior AI performance architect to shape product direction and benchmarking strategy for AI software across AMD platforms.

You will partner with engineering, architecture, and customers to ensure high performance, usability, and value across inference and training workloads. You will translate complex customer needs into actionable requirements, develop robust benchmark methodologies, and influence roadmaps for profiling, runtimes, and developer