Principal Software Development Engineer

Jobverse.io; Santa Clara (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a strategic software engineering lead to boost the performance of key applications and benchmarks, close software-stack gaps, and optimize GPU communication and AI workloads. You will partner with strategic customers to understand requirements, close gaps in the software stack, and develop solutions from proof of concept to production.

As the voice of the customer, you will translate insights into actionable feedback for AMD's AI roadmap and explore Agentic AI to improve

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with strategic customers to capture requirements and identify opportunities.
• Close gaps in the AMD software stack to support customer solutions.
• Optimize collective communication primitives on GPU accelerators (NCCL/RCCL).
• Work hands-on as a technical expert and problem-solver with customers to move projects from PoC to production.
• Act as the voice of the customer, translating needs into actionable feedback for AMD's AI roadmap.
• Leverage Agentic AI to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and improve operational efficiency.
• Thrive with autonomy and apply AMD technology to real-world problems.
• Apply a data-minded approach to target optimization efforts.
• Debug issues and explore more efficient approaches to the same work.

Job description

AMD is seeking a strategic software engineering lead to improve the performance of key applications and benchmarks. The role focuses on closing software-stack gaps, optimizing GPU communication and AI workloads, and working with customers to bring solutions from proof of concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with strategic customers to understand their requirements challenges and identify opportunities for AMD hardware and software to provide value
• Close gaps in the AMD software stack needed to support customer solutions
• Optimizing collective communication primitives on GPU accelerators (NCCL/RCCL)
• Work hands-on as a technical expert and creative problem-solver, developing side-by-side with customers to drive projects from proof of concept to production
• Act as the voice of the customer, translating their needs and your on-the-ground insights into actionable feedback that shapes the future of AMD's AI roadmap
• Use Agentic AI to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and improve operational efficiency
• Thrive in unfamiliar territory with a high degree of autonomy, finding novel ways to apply AMD technology to real-world problems
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture