Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - AI, C++, Inference

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THE ROLE: 

In this role, you will join the organization to enable AI acceleration at scale. You will work on developing software and methodologies to optimize and realize full system performance for AI workloads on Ryzen AI PC. You will explore novel optimization techniques to accelerate the latest AI models addressing vision, language, and generative models, working with the leading engineers in AMD’s CPU, GPU, and Adaptable Compute teams. 

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Develop & optimize software systems for deploying AI solutions on Ryzen AI PCs
• Optimize Ryzen AI system-level performance for multiple concurrent current AI workloads (Vision, Generative AI, Speech) and AMD devices (CPU, GPU, NPU)
• Optimize AI applications for Ryzen AI acceleration
• Work with cross-functional teams to optimize various parts of the SW stack – AI Compiler, AI frameworks, applications, device drivers, and firmware
• Work with teams across AMD to specify requirements for backend libraries, compilers, quantizers and toolchains to accelerate AI models on AMD platforms

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong object-oriented programming background, C/C preferred 

• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail 
• Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs 
• Experience with Windows, Linux and/or Android operating system development  
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills 
• (Plus) Understanding the performance implications on AI acceleration of different compute, memory, and communication configurations and hardware and software implementation choices
• (Plus) Experience with AI/ML inference stacks such as ONNXRuntime
• (Plus) Experience with GPU acceleration with either AMD or Nvidia GPUs
• (Plus) Experience with CPU acceleration such as AVX

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

Location: San Jose, Ca.

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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