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ADVANCE THE WORLD.\nAt AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.\nWhether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger - technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.\nTHE ROLE:\nAs a member of the Collectives and Network Performance team, you will contribute to developing, testing and optimizing collective communication and networking software for AMD GPUs. You will help improve training and inference performance across multi-GPU and multi-node systems, working with senior engineers and with internal GPU library, runtime and ROCm teams, and learning how to integrate optimizations across AMD GPU generations and a range of AI models.\nTHE PERSON:\nSeeking a motivated C++ developer with a solid foundation in Linux environments, computer architecture and networking concepts. The ideal candidate completes well-defined tasks with guidance, learns quickly, and collaborates effectively within a high-performing team. You are comfortable profiling and debugging performance issues and are interested in how AI model architectures map onto software and hardware. Familiarity with GPU programming and distributed training or inference is a plus.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nDevelop & Test Features: Implement, test and debug features in collective communication libraries and network software, under the guidance of senior engineers.\nProfile & Analyze Workloads: Profile LLM, diffusion, multimodal, RecSys and generative AI workloads on single-node and multi-node systems, and help identify performance bottlenecks.\nRun Benchmarks & Experiments: Run performance experiments across AMD GPU generations and network configurations, and summarize results for the team.\nContribute to Tooling: Contribute to tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, regression tracking and reporting.\nSupport Model & Framework Enablement: Support new model enablement and out-of-box performance efforts across AI frameworks, and work with internal teams and open-source communities to get changes reviewed and integrated.\nSoftware Engineering Best Practices: Follow sound engineering practices, including code reviews, testing and documentation, to deliver robust, maintainable code.\nLearn & Grow: Build expertise in collectives, networking and GPU performance through mentorship, code reviews, knowledge sharing and hands-on project work.\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\n Collective Communication & Network Fundamentals: Understanding of collective communication concepts (e.g., all-reduce, all-to-all), and familiarity with libraries such as RCCL, NCCL or MPI and with networking fundamentals such as RDMA, NICs and interconnects.\nGPU Programming & Architecture: Foundational knowledge of GPU architecture; experience with HIP, CUDA or similar GPU programming is a plus.\nDeep Learning Frameworks: Familiarity with AI frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, vLLM or SGLang and with distributed training or inference concepts.\nSoftware Engineering Fundamentals: Proficiency in C++ and Python, with experience in debugging, profiling and writing tests.\nProblem Solving & Communication: Strong problem-solving skills, eagerness to learn, and good written and verbal communication skills.\nIndustry Experience: professional experience in software development, with exposure to performance engineering, systems software, networking, or GPU programming.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nBachelor’s or Master'sdegree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent\nLOCATION:\nSan Jose, CA or Austin, TX - onsite.\nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.\n#LI-MV1\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD 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.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nTHE ROLE:\nAs a member of the Collectives and Network Performance team, you will contribute to developing, testing and optimizing collective communication and networking software for AMD GPUs. You will help improve training and inference performance across multi-GPU and multi-node systems, working with senior engineers and with internal GPU library, runtime and ROCm teams, and learning how to integrate optimizations across AMD GPU generations and a range of AI models.\nTHE PERSON:\nSeeking a motivated C++ developer with a solid foundation in Linux environments, computer architecture and networking concepts. The ideal candidate completes well-defined tasks with guidance, learns quickly, and collaborates effectively within a high-performing team. You are comfortable profiling and debugging performance issues and are interested in how AI model architectures map onto software and hardware. Familiarity with GPU programming and distributed training or inference is a plus.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nDevelop & Test Features: Implement, test and debug features in collective communication libraries and network software, under the guidance of senior engineers.\nProfile & Analyze Workloads: Profile LLM, diffusion, multimodal, RecSys and generative AI workloads on single-node and multi-node systems, and help identify performance bottlenecks.\nRun Benchmarks & Experiments: Run performance experiments across AMD GPU generations and network configurations, and summarize results for the team.\nContribute to Tooling: Contribute to tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, regression tracking and reporting.\nSupport Model & Framework Enablement: Support new model enablement and out-of-box performance efforts across AI frameworks, and work with internal teams and open-source communities to get changes reviewed and integrated.\nSoftware Engineering Best Practices: Follow sound engineering practices, including code reviews, testing and documentation, to deliver robust, maintainable code.\nLearn & Grow: Build expertise in collectives, networking and GPU performance through mentorship, code reviews, knowledge sharing and hands-on project work.\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\n Collective Communication & Network Fundamentals: Understanding of collective communication concepts (e.g., all-reduce, all-to-all), and familiarity with libraries such as RCCL, NCCL or MPI and with networking fundamentals such as RDMA, NICs and interconnects.\nGPU Programming & Architecture: Foundational knowledge of GPU architecture; experience with HIP, CUDA or similar GPU programming is a plus.\nDeep Learning Frameworks: Familiarity with AI frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, vLLM or SGLang and with distributed training or inference concepts.\nSoftware Engineering Fundamentals: Proficiency in C++ and Python, with experience in debugging, profiling and writing tests.\nProblem Solving & Communication: Strong problem-solving skills, eagerness to learn, and good written and verbal communication skills.\nIndustry Experience: professional experience in software development, with exposure to performance engineering, systems software, networking, or GPU programming.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nBachelor’s or Master'sdegree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent\nLOCATION:\nSan Jose, CA or Austin, TX - onsite.\nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.\n#LI-MV1\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. 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