AI kernel Development Engineer

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

THE ROLE: 

AMD is looking for a specialized software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.  

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 and drive execution of comprehensive, highly effective software for sophisticated new technology and new product introduction projects 
  
• Provide quick and robust technical support for key customer projects 
• Develop the optimization features and validate before releasing them to customers 
• Contribute to a high-functioning feature team 
• Collaborate closely with multiple teams to deliver key planning solutions and the technology to support them 
• Help contribute to the design and implementation of future architecture for a highly scalable, durable, and innovative system 

• Work very closely with dev teams and Project Managers to drive results  
• Skilled in using AI agent tools to assitant testing and analysis work, improve the efficiency of daily work. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Expert knowledge and hands-on experience in C, C++, python.
• Familiar with AI operations libraries, like flashInfer, tensorRT-LLM, CUTLASS, Aiter(AMD) etc. Used and customized ops and ops fusion from above libraries.
• Familiar with Triton compiler backend, on top of llir/ASM program with explicit layout, pipeline optimization. Has experience with the implementation of CUDA/Triton/Gluon kernels, has ability to reach at least 50% MFU with compute dense kernel.

• Solid understanding of roofline performance analysis ability, on top of profiling tools for optimization analysis, for example Nsight, ROCprofiler, etc. 
• Familiar with AMD CNDA/RDNA SIMD/arch, has experience on kernel development based on AMD platform is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

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

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AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.