What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Optimization Engineer, Fortran position at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc?
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Application Software Optimization Engineer, Fortran
THE ROLE:
Would you like to be part of a world class team enabling applications for the world’s mightiest supercomputers? AMD is searching for talented and highly motivated computational scientists/engineers to join our team of developers preparing applications for HPC platforms across industry, academia, and national laboratories.
This position is for a mid-level application optimization engineer in high performance computing. You will be part of a team porting and tuning a wide variety of scientific applications for AMD CPU and GPU platforms, with an emphasis on Fortran applications.
THE PERSON:
A computational scientist, physicist, or engineer with experience in multiple scientific computing domains and a track record of collaborating with others on applications and libraries widely used by the scientific computing community, especially programs written in Fortran. Must be self- motivated and possess the ability to work well within a team environment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Participate in Fortran ecosystem development by porting and testing Fortran based
applications to run with various compilers targeting AMD accelerators
Apply Fortran language expertise by participating in standards development,
implementation, testing, and documentation
Understand implications of Fortran and OpenMP standards and their implementations, and apply this knowledge to create correct and performant Fortran programs
Interact with compiler development teams to diagnose and resolve correctness and performance issues
Provide Fortran and GPU offloading standards knowledge to other groups at AMD
Develop and present training materials to internal audiences, at customer venues, and at industry conferences
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Extensive experience with modern Fortran and C
Participation in Fortran language standards committees and standard benchmarking
efforts
Strong profiling and performance analysis skills for both CPU and GPU
Experience in implementing and optimizing parallel methods on GPU accelerators in
distributed memory systems with MPI, CUDA, HIP, OpenMP, etc.
Broad experience creating, adapting, and running workloads with widely used HPC
applications.
Knowledge of multiple scientific computing disciplines such as finite element analysis,
computational chemistry, fluid dynamics, weather modeling, and oil and gas applications
Familiarity with installation and setup of various HPC applications
Experience with build system tools including Make, CMake, autoconf, and autotools
In-depth knowledge of software development practices including debug, test, revision
control, documentation, and bug tracking
Strong team development skills including demonstrated expertise with git and Jira
Excellent customer support skills
Ability to work well in geographically dispersed teams
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Engineering or related subjects, or equivalent experience
At least 5 years of relevant industry experience
LOCATION:
Austin, TX Preferred
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