Senior Silicon Design Engineer: AI Compute & GPU Co-Design

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a Senior Silicon Design Engineer to co-design the hardware-software interface for the AMD Instinct GPUs.

You will model how GPU microarchitecture interacts with AI frameworks and the ROCm software stack to drive performance improvements. You will write and optimize GPU kernels and compiler passes, working across the Linux kernel DRM/GEM layer, ROCm runtime, and AI frameworks like PyTorch and Triton.

Qualifications

• Experience at the boundary of GPU compute hardware and AI systems software.
• Strong knowledge of memory consistency, GPU microarchitecture, and pipelining.
• Proficient in C/C++ system programming and Python for tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build performance models linking architecture decisions to workload behavior.
• Write/optimize GPU kernels and compiler passes across the stack.
• Collaborate with kernel, runtime, and AI framework teams to improve latency and throughput.
• Evaluate hardware features and software designs for AI training/inference targets.
• Contribute to ROCm/IREE backend optimizations and driver design.

Skills

C/C++ system programming

Python tooling

CUDA/HIP

GPU microarchitecture

Linux kernel

Performance modeling

Compiler/IR

IREE/ROCm

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE

Tools

LLVM/MLIR

IREE

ROCm stack

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a Senior Silicon Design Engineer to co-design the hardware-software interface for the AMD Instinct GPUs.

You will model how GPU microarchitecture interacts with AI frameworks and the ROCm software stack to drive performance improvements. You will write and optimize GPU kernels and compiler passes, working across the Linux kernel DRM/GEM layer, ROCm runtime, and AI frameworks like PyTorch and Triton.