AI Software Development Engineer

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At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. 

Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

AMD is seeking an AI Software Development Engineer to architect, develop and accelerate the delivery of scalable, production-ready AI/ML solutions in support of AMD portfolio of AI products.  Successful candidates will be responsible for analysis and development of machine learning reference solutions that demonstrate end to end value within specific application segments of AMD’s AI portfolio of products. 

You will engage and provide liaison directly with technical and business teams to define a roadmap of AI solutions, work with marketing teams to deploy early PoCs, and engage Tier 1 customers to support their custom applications based on these reference solutions.

Other responsibilities will be to analyze emerging AI trends, and technologies and to continuously integrate new concepts & capabilities into the roadmap of reference solutions.  Through this work, the candidate will be a trusted advisor in providing learned insights to product and technical teams within AMD. 

As a member of the Developer Acceleration Team within AMD’s AI Group organization, you will have opportunity to work closely with internal stakeholders across the company as well as engage directly with external customers.  Close interaction with Engineering, Applications, and Business Unit stakeholders is essential.

THE PERSON:

The type of person who will be successful in this role is highly collaborative, and willing to trailblaze and champion new ideas. You will exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills, and you will be highly analytical.  Applicants should possess a BS/MS in CSE/EE or equivalent.  The position requires comprehensive knowledge of machine learning architectures, models, and industry developer tools. Prior work experience in developing production software solutions and CI/CD methods is critical.

 Develop and deliver machine learning solutions that demonstrate customer value across AMD’s AI product portfolio

• Implementation and training of machine learning models in common frameworks including model fine-tuning, and deployment on hardware systems
• Experience with deployed production runtime serving of machine learning applications
• Experience publishing to open source, including GitHub repositories and industry collaborations
• Experience emerging software frameworks for Generative AI and Agentic AI
• Developing in Python, C/C++, and deployment of solutions within Jupyter notebooks
• Integration and development of demonstration/application software
• Benchmarking on cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Full stack software experience (front end user interfaces) is a plus.
• Experience with foundational machine learning model architecture development or implementation including Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG pipelines, multi-modal applications including ASR/TTS, and Image Generation pipelines
• Domain expertise in a machine learning application development – especially in developing production scale consumer or commercial software.
• Technical publication within machine learning industry
• Collaboration with industry standards bodies
• Perl/Python/C++ scripting for test automation

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS/MS (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related equivalent)

LOCATION:
San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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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.