Development Engineering Tech I

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As a Fellow, you will be accountable for defining and driving the end-to-end software optimization strategy to achieve industry-leading performance for our top-tier customers. You will play a pivotal role in GPU architecture feature design, usage, API design, optimization, and deployment,
We are looking for a talented and motivated GPU kernel developer with broad and deep experience in compute and machine learning software development to deliver out of the box high performance ROCm core software to our customers. Perform external benchmarking and research to define opportunities to improve GPU kernel performance on AMD machine learning products
Analyze and optimize the performance of GPU kernels, providing insight on optimization paths across the AI software stack.
Partner with top customers and hyperscalers to understand their unique workload requirements and deliver tailored architectural wins and software optimizations.
Communicate and collaborate with key technical experts across AMD and with our partners and customers to improve ROCm applications, libraries, and tools, as well as hardware

Strong understanding of modern model architectures (Transformer, Attention, KV Cache) and optimization techniques like quantization, speculative decoding, and FlashAttention.

Excellent GPU architecture knowledge, performance analysis, algorithm development, and machine learning experience
Proven history of optimizing GPU kernels with advanced algorithms and across entire AI software stack.

PREFERRED ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

~ Bachelor’s or Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
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