What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tk Compiler Software Development Director position at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc?
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The Role
As a Tk compiler engineer, you will help design and implement the compiler infrastructure for a kernel language that can generate high performance kernels for a wide variety of ML use cases. Tk (Turbine Kernels) is a language that layers on top of the IREE compiler and runtime that can be used for writing high performance kernels for a wide variety of hardware backends.
The Person
A strong compiler and programming language expert, who is very familiar with the GPU/CPU programming model and understands the core optimization primitives. You are a strong communicator and team player.
Key Responsibilities
- You will drive the design and development of the Tk language and compiler infrastructure
- Implement compiler optimizations for generating high performance kernels on AMD GPUs, CPUs and IPUs
- Implement state of the art ML kernels in Tk (such as paged attention, etc.) and optimize them
- Participate in design discussions and develop roadmap for future work
- Engage with the community and drive adoption of Tk for various use-cases
Preferred Experience
- 5 years of experience in compiler development
- Strong understanding of programming language and compiler development
- Experience with IREE, MLIR and/or LLVM
- Experience with HPC programming and writing high performance kernels in CUDA, OpenCL, SYCL, etc.
- Strong understanding of programming languages such as Triton, Mojo, Python, Haskell
- Understanding of optimizations in generative models such as LLMs, SDXL etc.
- Understanding of distributed computations and communication collectives
Academic Credentials
- Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field
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