Member of Technical Staff, AMD GPU Performance Engineering

Role Description

We're looking for an AMD GPU performance engineer to make vLLM a first-class inference engine across the AMD accelerator ecosystem. You'll build and optimize AMD GPU backends, kernels, runtime paths, and benchmarking infrastructure using ROCm, HIP, Triton, CK, AITER, and related tooling so vLLM can deliver frontier inference performance on AMD GPUs.

You'll work at the boundary of inference systems, kernels, compilers, and hardware architecture, improving performance-critical paths such as:

• Attention
• GEMM
• Sampling
• KV cache
• Communication-heavy operations

Your work will help make AMD GPU support in vLLM usable, fast, benchmarked, and maintainable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems, machine learning, or similar.
• Hands-on experience optimizing AMD GPU workloads using ROCm, HIP, Triton, CK, AITER, or similar AMD ecosystem tools.
• Deep understanding of AMD GPU execution, memory behavior, toolchains, kernel performance, and backend-specific performance constraints.
• Experience optimizing ML kernels or inference paths such as attention, GEMM, sampling, KV cache, fused kernels, or communication-heavy runtime paths.
• Strong performance profiling and benchmarking skills, with the ability to use measurements, hardware counters, correctness tests, and reproducible benchmarks to guide optimization work.

Requirements

• Experience with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, ROCm-based serving, or other LLM inference systems.
• Familiarity with batching, KV cache, decoding, serving tradeoffs, and backend performance constraints in production inference systems.
• Experience with compiler and kernel technologies such as Triton, MLIR, LLVM, CK, AITER, HIP, or other kernel DSLs and backend libraries.
• Knowledge of quantization methods such as INT8, FP8, mixed precision, or AMD hardware-specific numeric formats, including accuracy and performance tradeoffs.

Benefits

• Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) company match.