Deep Learning Library GPU Software Development Engineer - Performance Kernel and AI Libraries

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THE ROLE: 

AMD is looking for an individual to join a hardworking team developing Deep Learning and High-Performance Computing GPU kernels on the AMD Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) platform (https://github.com/ROCm) and MIOpen (https://github.com/ROCm/MIOpen), AMD's Deep Learning primitives library which provides highly-optimized implementations of a variaty of operators, and collaborating with AI kernel development in Composable Kernel (ROCm/composable_kernel: Composable Kernel: Performance Portable Programming Model for Machine Learning Tensor Operators (github.com))

THE PERSON: 

The successful person will be an experienced programmer with experience in performance optimization on convolution and other critical AI performance operators on GPU and other massive parallel processing environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting and supporting for AMD’s Machine Learning and Deep Learning Library: MIOpen (https://github.com/ROCm/MIOpen)
• The candidate should have experince with deep learning training and inference workloads optimization on massive parallel hardware and software platforms.
• They will be responsible guiding performance optimizing algorithms for new GPU hardware.
• Perform code reviews, build unit tests, author detailed documentation related to their work, and work with on-site and offshore teams to deliver the software solutions on schedule.
• They will play a key role in all phases of the software development including system requirements analysis, coordinating feature design and development across functional and organizational boundaries.
  
• They will be driving new hardware and software co-design to optimize state-of-the-art deep learning workloads, and leading the collaboration from hardware, compiler, to a variaty of deep learning frameworks

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong programming skills in software architecture in C/C , and background in machine learning and deep learning, particularly in training.
• Experience with analyzing and tuning performance optimization for GPU computing is preferred.
• Experience or knowledge about deep learning primitives, fusion, and inference optimization is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, SW practices including debugging, test, revision control, documentation, and bug tracking.
• Good teamwork and interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to work independently and within complementary teams.
• Demonstrate flexibility, strong motivation, and a proven track record of meeting results-oriented deadlines.
• Knowledge with deep neural network machine learning technologies and modern machine learning programming frameworks.
• Experience working with and developing virtualization containers and package managers for code deployment.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related subjects, or strong and equivalent experience

LOCATION: Santa Clara, California

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