Senior HPC & AI Engineer (PhD) — Production-Scale

Advanced Micro Devices; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks a HPC & AI Engineer (PhD) via the Software Systems Design Engineering team to lead optimization of HPC/AI workloads on AMD EPYC processors. The role is based in Austin or Santa Clara with collaboration across product, marketing, and silicon teams to boost performance in production environments.

The ideal candidate has deep x86 knowledge, hands-on code optimization and profiling experience, and familiarity with AI tools.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in x86 architecture.
• Experience optimizing HPC/AI software.
• Experience profiling with tools like uProf and VTune.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude and Curser.

Responsibilities

• Lead enablement and optimization of HPC and AI solutions on AMD EPYC processors.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and silicon development teams to shape performance strategies and customer deployments.
• Drive end-customer application optimization and production-level cluster performance.

Skills

x86 architecture

Code optimization

System profiling (uProf, VTune)

AI tools (Claude, Curser)

HPC code bases (CPU/GPU)

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks a HPC & AI Engineer (PhD) via the Software Systems Design Engineering team to lead optimization of HPC/AI workloads on AMD EPYC processors. The role is based in Austin or Santa Clara with collaboration across product, marketing, and silicon teams to boost performance in production environments.

The ideal candidate has deep x86 knowledge, hands-on code optimization and profiling experience, and familiarity with AI tools.