[Hiring] Senior Field Application Engineer @Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Field Application Engineer to join our HPC and AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), to lead the technical engagement of HPC opportunities in Europe. This is a customer facing role where you will:

• Help position AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs.
• Influence customer proof of concepts, building and running popular applications, and customer in-house applications.
• Coordinate with and assist partners.
• Own the technical remit of your accounts: qualification, stakeholders, understand timelines, coordinate within internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Test new AMD products prior to launch and characterize performance.
• Work both independently and with other AMD engineers.
• Perform proof of concepts, tackle technical software and hardware HPC performance, debug, and capability issues.
• Collaborate with Field Application Engineering (FAE) peers, Sales colleagues, CPU and GPU Business Units, Architecture, Software, and Platform teams.

Qualifications

• Clear track record of technical execution on HPC opportunities.
• MUST HAVE: Expertise in HPC application performance testing on CPU (and ideally GPU).
• Strong technical program management skills.
• Ability to lead technical relationships with both customers and HPC partners.
• Ability to independently prioritize opportunities to deliver results on time.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good level of business English.
• Strong positive can-do attitude willing to do what is necessary.
• Open to travel domestic and international, approximately 10-25%.

Requirements

• Lead HPC technical engagement in key customer accounts through product discussion and demonstration.
• Proof of concepts and performance testing applications.
• Hardware and toolchain performance debug, testing, characterization, and comparison.
• Providing CPU recommendations based on generated performance data.
• Liaising with partners on their HPC testing.
• Providing ‘hands-on’ assistance.
• Pitching and demonstrating EPYC and Instinct for HPC.
• Assist in creating TCO models to assist pricing with bid desk.
• Characterizing applications on EPYC and Instinct, documenting results.
• Perform testing on early CPU samples.
• Active engagement with Engineering, Architecture, Platform, Software, and Product Development teams providing feedback and leadership from the field on future direction.
• Create necessary training material.
• Provide training sessions at customer sites.
• Act as specialist and mentor to frontline Field Application Engineering team.
• Technically owning and resolving customer and partner issues.
• Submitting JIRA tickets and driving resolution.
• Automating repeatable procedures.

Preferred Experience

• Track record in winning HPC opportunities over a 3+ year period.
• Expertise in compiling large codes from source, e.g., large weather codes, with appropriately linked math libraries and flag optimization.
• Strong understanding of different toolchains (e.g., ZenSS, Intel, CPE).
• Ability to pitch product and influence customers.
• Proven understanding of baseline testing of popular synthetic and real-world codes (e.g., HPL, OpenFOAM, molecular dynamics, CFD, weather).
• Understanding system level hardware and its configuration/impact on performance.
• Customer-facing experience.
• Able to write technical documents and communicate at an appropriate level depending on the audience.
• Some Linux administration; understanding setup for HPC middleware.

Nice to Haves

• 5+ years HPC application experience.
• Experience building and running HPC applications on GPU (CUDA, OpenACC, OpenMP).
• Experience running AI models on CPU or GPU.
• Any experience understanding/inspecting/writing assembly.
• Understanding of memory and cache hierarchy and methods to query performance/latency at each level.
• Understanding HPC dataflow down to the register-level.
• Security clearance for the national labs in the USA.

Academic Credentials

• Bachelors' Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics) preferred.

Location

• United Kingdom (but also open to Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Italy). Home-based.

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance.