What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Design Engineer - Data Center GPU position at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc?
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THE ROLE:
Our growing team plays a major role in architecting and shaping data center GPUs offered by AMD.
As part of the Exerciser team, you will architect and develop low-level GPU testcases (“exercisers”) to expose silicon and software bugs. This will require strong collaboration with stakeholders from design, emulation, driver, firmware, and debug teams.
THE PERSON:
You will have strong skills in both GPU and systems programming (Linux kernel and userspace) to excel in this role. Out-of-the-box thinking and leveraging of novel approaches to address tough technical challenges is encouraged. You must be a team player but also able to work efficiently with minimal supervision. Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills are a must. Join our growing team to accelerate the introduction of cutting-edge compute products into the datacenter market if this sounds like you!
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop new stress applications utilizing knowledge of the underlying microarchitecture to discover issues in hardware and software
- Participate in debugging found issues to root cause
- Contribute to in-house stress application frameworks
- Strong GPU programming skills
- Very familiar with Linux and Linux systems programming
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- GPU programming (CUDA / HIP / OpenCL / SP3 assembly)
- GPU architecture expertise
- AI expertise
- Experience with parallel programming, concurrency, and memory consistency models
- Modern C (14 ) programming
- Low-level/firmware programming
- Linux device drivers and/or kernel development
- Linux userspace systems programming
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering, computer science 10 years industry experience
LOCATION:
Austin, TX
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