[Hiring] Principal Software Development Engineer @Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Role Description

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers to PCs, gaming, and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity, and a shared passion to create something extraordinary.

Who we're looking for:

• You are an influential software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks.
• You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.
• You are a hands-on senior engineer with a passion for machine learning techniques and software engineering.
• You possess engineering skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution.
• You can communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.

What you'll be part of:

• Research, prototype, benchmark different ML algorithms from conceptual phase to deployment on GPU.
• Research, prototype different quantization techniques for the graphics ML algorithms.
• Optimize existing ML algorithms with techniques such as quantization.
• Work across research, hardware, driver, and compiler teams to analyze and troubleshoot performance issues, providing solutions to improve rendering speed and ML workload efficiency.
• Stay current with latest advancements in GPU hardware, rendering techniques, graphics APIs, and GPU accelerated ML.
• Document and share knowledge on best practices for GPU programming (both graphics and compute/ML) within the team.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

Qualifications

• Understanding Machine Learning techniques and its application within graphics ML model development and optimization such as quantization.
• Strong ML development pipeline experience in a production environment.
• Strong python/porch development experiences from concept to production.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub), and profilers is a plus.
• Strong object-oriented programming background, C/C++ preferred.
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Requirements

• Proven experience in developing and optimizing GPU kernels for machine learning workloads (e.g., using HIP, OpenCL, CUDA, HLSL).
• Ability to program in low-level languages (x86 asm, SSE, ISA, Ptx, AMD assembly).
• Strong understanding of GPU architecture (compute cores, cache hierarchy, memory model), graphics APIs (DirectX, OpenGL, Vulkan, etc.), and shader programming.
• Solid understanding of common neural network operators, their mathematical foundations, and computational requirements.

Academics

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance.