Sr. Fellow Machine Learning Engineer

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The Role

We are looking for a Fellow/Sr. Fellow Machine Learning Engineer to join our Training At Scale team. If you are excited by the challenge of distributed training of large models on a large number of GPUs, and if you are passionate about improving training efficiency while innovating and generating new ideas, then this role is for you. You will be part of a world class team focused on addressing the challenge of training generative AI.

The Person

The ideal candidate should have experience with distributed training pipelines, be knowledgeable in distributed training algorithms (Data Parallel, Tensor Parallel, Pipeline Parallel, Expert Parallel), and be familiar with training large models.

Key Responsibilities

• Train large models to convergence on AMD GPUs at scale.
• Improve the end-to-end training pipeline performance on large scale GPU cluster.
• Improve the end-to-end debuggability on large scale GPU cluster.
• Design and optimize the distributed training pipeline and software stack to scale out.
• Contribute your changes to open source.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest training algorithms/frameworks.
• Influence the direction of AMD AI platform.
• Collaborate across teams with various groups and stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Strong background in machine learning, distributed systems, or AI infrastructure.
• Proven experience building and optimizing distributed training systems for large models.
• Prefer experience in both model and application-level development and optimization.
• Strong familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow) and distributed frameworks (TorchTitan, Megatron-LM).
• Hands-on expertise with LLMs, recommendation systems, or ranking models.
• Proficiency in Python and C++, including performance profiling, debugging, and large-scale optimization.
• Experience collaborating across hardware, compiler, and system software layers.
• Excellent communication, and problem-solving skills.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.

LOCATION

San Jose, CA or Bellevue, WA preferred. Other U.S. locations near AMD offices may be considered.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.