Staff Software Development Engineer - AI/ML frameworks, C/C++/Python

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; California, San Jose (MO, CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an AI frameworks engineer, where your expertise will drive innovation in AI model training and inference. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with diverse teams to enhance AI capabilities across various AMD devices. You'll be at the forefront of developing frameworks that empower next-generation computing experiences, making a significant impact in the industry. If you are passionate about AI/ML and eager to lead technical initiatives, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible working hours

Remote work options

Professional development programs

Qualifications

• Experience with AI frameworks and performance tuning for ML accelerators.
• Proficient in C++ and Python development.
• Strong understanding of AI model architectures.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in AI frameworks development.
• Collaborate with researchers to optimize AI models on AMD hardware.
• Guide senior developers in framework software development.

Skills

AI frameworks

C++ programming

Python programming

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OnnxRuntime

Model optimization

AI model architectures

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Python tools and libraries

AI runtime stacks

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences - the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

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THE ROLE:
AMD is looking for a world class AI frameworks engineer who can provide technical leadership in the development of various AI frameworks in the AMD ecosystem. You will need to drive technical direction for next generation frameworks for AI model training and inference for wide variety of AMD devices, current and future, such as MI Instinct, and Radeon GPUs, XDNA devices, including the recently released Ryzen AI, Alveo V70 and Versal ACAP, and datacenter CPUs such as EPYC. You will work enhance the AI framework capabilities to enable cutting-edge models on onto AMD's cutting-edge hardware.

THE PERSON:
If you are passionate about AI/ML frameworks, software architecture, and/or compilers this is your opportunity. You will be working in one of the core areas, such as AI/ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX/OnnxRuntime), AI runtime components, and/or optimization tooling to accelerate AI/ML workloads on AMD hardware platforms. You will collaborate closely with AI researchers to drive the development of framework components to efficiently map AI models to run on a variety of HW AI accelerators. You will have demonstrated focus in at least one of these areas: developing and deploying model optimization features, such as graph fusion, quantization, sparsity,

and/or experience with profiling and accelerating workloads on acceleerators such as GPU or NPU, and AI execution runtimes. You should be someone who can work in a dynamic, fast-paced development environment, with excellent leadership and collaboration skills. You will work with multiple engineering teams that are geographically dispersed. You will work on next generation framework software, guiding other senior developers and domain experts.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with development in one of the focus areas: AI frameworks, AI runtime stacks, and/or performance tuning and optimizations for workloads running on ML accelerator HWs.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, OnnxRuntime, JAX, TensorFlow
• Proficient in C++ programming.
• Experience developing and debugging in Python.
• Excellent skills at designing Python tools and libraries used by large number of users.
• Experience with AI model architectures, e.g. Transformers, CNNs.
• Team player and ready to work with a geographically distributed team.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Highly preferred - knowledge of custom accelerator hardware
• Experience with AI software framework, benchmarking and profiling
• Operator/kernel development and deployment of models to accelerator (GPU/NPU) stack
• OR Depth of experience with model optimization, including quantization, sparsity.
• Solid understanding of model architectures, LLMs, MoE, diffusion.
• Experience on LLMs/LMMs finetuning, distillation, and/or RLHF

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical fields.

LOCATION: San Jose, California

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