Principal Software Engineer (AI Inference / Distributed Systems)

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THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for a strategic software engineering lead 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 techniques for optimizing scale-up and scale-out inference.
• Develop methods and tooling to utilize dynamic resources in service of inference
• Support proliferation of rocm ecosystem.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Expertise in the K8s ecosystem, especially as it pertains to large scale inference
• Operational experience with at least one of sglang, or vllm and with kserve, llm-d. Experience running inference as a service can be substituted in-lieu of experience with frameworks such as kserve or llm-d.
• Expertise with techniques used to optimize inference like distributed kv-cache, disaggregation, request scheduling etc

• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail. Preferred languages are go and python.
• Experience with modern concurrent programming
• Effective communicator with keen attention to detail.

• Prior experience roadmapping deeply technical areas is highly valuable.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

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

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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