Senior Compiler Software Development Engineer - AI/ML

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.

 

AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
• Design, develop, and optimize compiler transformations and operator lowerings within MLIR, LLVM, and the ROCm software stack.
• Develop scalable solutions that improve portability and performance across AMD GPU architectures.
• Collaborate with compiler and runtime teams to develop advanced optimization strategies for AI workloads.
• Implement, validate, and maintain ONNX operators and microbenchmark test suites.
• Lead performance optimization efforts for AI training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning (RL), and inference workloads on AMD GPUs.
• Design and implement graph-level, kernel-level, and runtime-level optimizations that deliver measurable performance gains.
• Analyze workload execution characteristics and identify opportunities for improvements in compute efficiency, memory utilization, and communication overhead.
• Drive performance characterization and benchmarking across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.           

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

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

 

LOCATION:

San Jose, California

 

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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. 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.

 

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.