Triton Compiler and Kernel Software Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AMD benefits

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking a Senior Triton Compiler and Kernel Engineer to advance Triton performance on AMD GPUs.

You will work across GPU architecture, compilers, kernels, multi-GPU communication, and AI frameworks while contributing to upstream Triton and ROCm. The role requires deep knowledge of GPU architecture, compiler optimization, and high-performance kernel development, with collaboration across teams and mentoring of others.

Qualifications

• Experience with AMD GPU architecture and ROCm is desirable.
• Strong background in compiler development and optimization.
• Proven ability to create and optimize high-performance GPU kernels.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize Triton compiler support for AMD GPUs.
• Improve compiler lowering, optimization, scheduling, and code generation.
• Create high-performance kernels for AI workloads like attention and GEMM.
• Develop and optimize multi-GPU kernels and communication primitives.
• Collaborate with architecture, ROCm, PyTorch, and AI framework teams.
• Contribute designs to upstream Triton and LLVM/MLIR.

Skills

GPU architecture

Compiler development

High-performance kernels

Multi-GPU communication

Distributed AI training

AI performance profiling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Triton

LLVM

MLIR

CUDA

HIP

NCCL

RCCL

Job description

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THE ROLE:

We are seeking a Senior Triton Compiler and Kernel Engineer to advance Triton performance and capabilities on AMD GPUs.

Triton is an open-source language and compiler for developing high-performance GPU kernels in Python. It is a critical layer in the AI software stack, connecting frameworks and workloads to GPU hardware. Triton is strategic to AMD’s AI roadmap, and AMD is investing fully in making it a first-class platform for current and future AMD GPUs.

You will work across GPU architecture, compilers, kernels, multi-GPU communication, and AI frameworks while contributing to upstream Triton and AMD’s ROCm software stack.

THE PERSON:

• GPU architecture and programming


• Compiler development and optimization


• High-performance GPU kernels


• Multi-GPU communication and collective operations


• Distributed AI training and inference


• AI workload and framework performance


• Low-level performance analysis

You can reason across the stack—from distributed AI algorithms and Triton programs to compiler transformations, communication libraries, generated instructions, and GPU hardware.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and optimize Triton compiler support for AMD GPUs.


• Improve compiler lowering, optimization, scheduling, and code generation.


• Create high-performance kernels for attention, GEMM, MoE, and other AI workloads.


• Develop and optimize multi-GPU kernels and communication primitives.


• Enable new AMD GPU and interconnect capabilities through effective Triton abstractions.


• Analyze compute, memory, communication, occupancy, register usage, and generated code.


• Resolve complex correctness and performance issues across single- and multi-GPU workloads.


• Collaborate with GPU architecture, ROCm, PyTorch, and AI framework teams.


• Contribute designs and implementations to upstream Triton and LLVM/MLIR.


• Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with AMD GPU architecture and ROCm is highly desirable.


• Experience optimizing kernels with Triton, HIP, CUDA, or GPU assembly.


• Experience with Triton, LLVM, MLIR, or another optimizing compiler.


• Knowledge of GPU execution models, memory hierarchies, synchronization, and instruction pipelines.


• Experience with collective communication, distributed programming, and libraries such as RCCL or NCCL.


• Understanding of communication topologies, interconnects, synchronization, and communication–computation overlap.


• Familiarity with distributed training, inference, tensor parallelism, expert parallelism, or pipeline parallelism.


• Experience using AI coding tools and autonomous agents to accelerate software development, debugging, benchmarking, and kernel performance tuning.


• Familiarity with AI primitives, reduced-precision formats, and performance profiling.


• Contributions to complex or open-source software projects.


• Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and collaboration skills.

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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