Technical Program Manager, AI Research Engineering

AMD; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Benefits at a glance

Job summary

AMD in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a hands-on Technical Program Manager to drive AI/ML research and platform initiatives across engineering teams. You will translate complex technical strategy into clear execution plans, coordinate with ML engineers, researchers, and hardware/software experts, and lead cross-functional programs from planning to production.

This role emphasizes driving measurable outcomes, managing milestones, and improving workflows to accelerate AI, ML, and semiconductor

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex AI/ML programs across software and hardware teams.
• Strong ability to translate technical goals into actionable execution plans.
• Excellent communication with engineers, researchers, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of complex cross-functional AI/ML programs with milestones and risks.
• Translate ambiguous goals into structured plans, workstreams, and metrics.
• Align engineering, research, platform, and hardware/software teams on priorities.
• Establish execution rhythms and provide executive‑level status updates.
• Coordinate AI workflow initiatives including benchmarking and distributed training.
• Track outcomes like performance, regression rates, adoption, and infra utilization.
• Drive pilot and production readiness, including rollout plans and retrospectives.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive improvements to processes and roadmaps.

Skills

Technical Program Management

AI/ML systems

Distributed systems

Engineering leadership

Executive communication

Program planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

CUDA/ROCm/HIP

Kubernetes

Ray

Slurm

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive execution across AI Research Engineering, Applied AI, ML Systems, and AI/ML Platform teams. This role will coordinate programs spanning AI/ML workflows, reinforcement learning, inference, evaluation infrastructure, agentic/recursive self-improvement systems, and shared platforms supporting hardware and software optimization, verification, simulation, and performance engineering.

THE PERSON:

This is a hands‑on TPM role for someone who can translate complex technical strategy into clear execution plans and work credibly with ML engineers, AI engineers, platform engineers, research scientists, and hardware/software domain experts.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead planning and execution of complex, cross‑functional AI/ML and engineering programs, including milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and critical paths.


• Translate ambiguous technical goals into structured plans, workstreams, success metrics, and acceptance criteria.


• Align engineering, research, platform, and hardware/software teams on priorities, scope, and delivery.


• Establish execution rhythms, track milestones and blockers, and provide clear executive‑level status reporting.


• Coordinate platform and AI workflow initiatives involving benchmarking, evaluation, experiment tracking, distributed training/inference, and automation.


• Track measurable outcomes such as performance, correctness, regression rates, adoption, experiment throughput, and infrastructure utilization.


• Drive pilot and production readiness, including rollout plans, documentation, support, and retrospectives.


• Identify recurring delivery bottlenecks and drive improvements to processes, staffing, and technical roadmaps.

Technical Focus

• AI/ML systems, agentic AI, RL, inference, and evaluation


• Distributed ML infrastructure and GPU platforms


• AI-driven engineering workflows and automation


• Hardware/software optimization, RTL, verification, simulation, firmware, compilers, and performance engineering


• Moving research prototypes into reliable, production‑oriented engineering systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or equivalent within complex software, AI/ML, or engineering environments.


• Strong technical fluency in AI/ML systems, software engineering, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure.


• Proven ability to manage multiple complex workstreams with ambiguous requirements and shifting priorities.


• Excellent communication skills with engineers, researchers, technical leaders, and executives.


• Strong skills in program planning, dependency management, risk management, milestone tracking, and executive‑level status reporting.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with AI/ML, ML systems, developer platforms, or internal AI tooling.


• Familiarity with GPU computing, CUDA/ROCm/HIP, distributed training/inference, Kubernetes, Ray, or Slurm.


• Experience in semiconductor, EDA, verification, firmware, compilers, or HPC.


• Experience with agent frameworks, LLM tool use, benchmark automation, experiment tracking, or evaluation platforms.


• Experience bridging research prototypes and production engineering systems.


• Experience operating in matrixed, cross‑functional organizations.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA

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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third‑party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.