Senior Silicon Design Engineer, AI GPUs & Co-design

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with hardware architects to model interactions between GPU microarchitecture, AI frameworks, and ROCm software, driving improvements in performance and energy efficiency across the AI compute stack. You will write and optimize GPU kernels, work across the Linux kernel DRM/GEM layer, ROCm runtime, IREE compiler, and AI frameworks like

Qualifications

• Industry experience at the boundary of GPU compute hardware and AI systems software.
• Strong computer architecture foundation: memory consistency and coherence models, GPU microarchitecture, pipelining.
• Proven performance modeling skills and analytical or simulation-based models.

Responsibilities

• Build performance and power models linking architectural decisions to workloads.
• Evaluate hardware features and API designs for AI training and inference targets.
• Write and optimize GPU kernels and compiler passes for microarchitectural characteristics.

Skills

CUDA/HIP

C/C++

Python

GPU architecture

Performance modeling

Linux kernel internals

IREE/ROCm

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/CE

Tools

LLVM/MLIR

IREE

ROCm stack

GPU profiling tools

Job description

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

You will collaborate with hardware architects to model interactions between GPU microarchitecture, AI frameworks, and ROCm software, driving improvements in performance and energy efficiency across the AI compute stack. You will write and optimize GPU kernels, work across the Linux kernel DRM/GEM layer, ROCm runtime, IREE compiler, and AI frameworks like