Sr. Data Center GPU Validation and Debug Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks an experienced engineer to validate and debug data center GPU products across the complete software and hardware stack. You will trace unexpected behavior from application to hardware, working across firmware, kernel, compiler, library, and framework teams to drive issues to resolution.

The role emphasizes strong Linux systems engineering, C/C++, Python, and shell automation, with exposure to ROCm/HIP, CUDA, and PCIe. Hybrid work model in the U.S. is supported.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux and systems-engineering experience.
• Experience with data center GPUs or high-performance systems.
• Understanding of GPU architecture and memory hierarchy.
• Experience debugging across software, firmware, kernel, and hardware boundaries.
• Ability to analyze logs, traces, and performance counters.

Responsibilities

• Debug GPU failures across the full software and hardware stack.
• Reproduce failures and create minimal, actionable test cases.
• Triage system-level interactions across GPU, CPU, memory, networking, power, and topology.
• Validate AI, HPC, and communication workloads across platforms and releases.
• Characterize performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Analyze single- and multi-GPU behavior under various configurations.
• Establish benchmarks, baselines, and regression-detection methods.
• Build automated diagnostics, stress tests, and regression infrastructure.
• Support customer-representative validation and escalation reproduction.

Skills

Linux systems

C/C++

Python

Shell scripting

GPU architecture

Performance analysis

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ROCm/HIP

CUDA

PCIe

Job description

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THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced engineer to validate and debug data center GPU products across the complete software and hardware stack, spanning workload behavior and performance qualification as well as platform health and root-cause isolation. The role demands strong technical judgment, disciplined failure isolation, and the ability to trace unexpected behavior from application to hardware, working across firmware, kernel, compiler, library, and framework teams to drive issues to resolution.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Debug GPU failures including hangs, crashes, memory faults, firmware errors, and performance regressions across the full software and hardware stack.
• Reproduce failures and reduce them to minimal, actionable test cases.
• Triage system-level interactions across GPU, CPU, memory, networking, power, and platform topology.
• Validate AI, HPC, and communication workloads across GPU platforms, firmware, and software releases.
• Characterize performance and identify compute, memory, and communication bottlenecks.
• Analyze single- and multi-GPU behavior across workload configurations, topology, NUMA, power, and thermal conditions.
• Establish benchmarks, baselines, and regression-detection methods; correlate microbenchmark results with real workload behavior.
• Build automated diagnostics, stress tests, performance suites, and regression infrastructure.
• Support customer-representative validation and escalation reproduction.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong Linux and systems-engineering experience, with C/C++, Python, and shell automation.
• Experience with data center GPUs, accelerators, or comparable high-performance systems.
• Understanding of GPU architecture, memory hierarchy, parallel execution, communication, and synchronization.
• Experience debugging across software, firmware, kernel, and hardware boundaries.
• Ability to analyze logs, traces, hardware telemetry, and performance counters.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel drivers, PCIe, firmware interaction, and memory management.
• Familiarity with GPU programming models and runtimes such as ROCm/HIP, RCCL, or CUDA equivalents.
• Experience with AI training or inference frameworks such as PyTorch, vLLM, or SGLang.
• Experience benchmarking AI inference, training, or HPC workloads, including roofline analysis and model-level profiling.
• Experience with profiling tools, statistical analysis, and regression detection.
• Familiarity with multi-GPU topology, PCIe/fabric interconnects, NUMA, GPU firmware, RAS, and rack-scale platforms.
• Experience with system bring-up, qualification, or production data center operations.
• Familiarity with CI systems, automated validation infrastructure, and fleet-scale testing.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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