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Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuityand a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’lldiscover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges-striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.Together, we advance your career.\nTHE ROLE:\nAMD AI Group is seeking a highly influential technical leader for OneROCm - driving a unified ROCm software stack across AMD’s broad product portfolio, including Instinct, Radeon, Ryzen, Embedded, Game Consoles, and Autonomous Driving platforms. This is a rare opportunity to drive innovation, and help develop next-generation products(NPI) at company-wide scale. The ideal candidate will shape the end-to-end ROCm software and influence the full stack, spanning compilers, kernels, runtime, libraries, models, frameworks, and performance optimization layers. The role also requires strong hardware/software co-design to maximize performance across diverse AMD products and workloads. The ideal candidate is expected to be highly hands-on and embrace agentic AI workflows.\nTHE PERSON:\nYou are a strong technical leader who is able towork across organizations, align architecture with product goals, and influence innovation and execution. You bring deep expertisein at least one major area of the stack, while also demonstratingthe curiosity, adaptability, and technical breadth to learn new domains, grow their impact, and influence the broader ecosystem.\nAs a successful candidate, you are recognized for technical excellence, and the ability to deliver innovationsthrough collaboration across silicon, system software, AI/ML frameworks, libraries, and application enablement teams.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nHardware-Software Co-design: Collaborate across hardware architecture, compiler, math libraries, kerneland framework teams to influence future silicon features based on evolving AI workload trends.\nStrong Execution: Deliver innovations and roadmap for AI software stack across all AMD products, ensuring AMD remainsthe platform of choice for top-tier AI customers.\nWorkload Performance Engineering: Lead the profiling, analysis, and tuning of large-scale models (LLMs, Diffusion, Multimodal, and MoE) to ensure \"out-of-the-box\" performance excellence on AMD hardware.\nEcosystem Innovation: Drive the development of advanced tools and frameworks for performance estimation, modeling, and automated reporting.\nCustomer Engagement: Partner with top customers and hyperscalersto understand their unique workload requirements and deliver tailored architectural wins and software optimizations.\nCommunity & Open Source: Mentor and inspire otherengineersand contribute to ROCmOpensource.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\nKnowledge in GPU architectures, basic knowledge of CPU architecture \nExperience in AI/ML software stack spanning compilers, kernels, runtime, libraries, models, frameworks, and performance optimization layers\nUnderstanding of GPU programming such as ROCm, CUDA, OpenCL, etc\nExperience in hardware/software co-design, building high-performance products across the full product lifecycle.\nExperience with operating systems (OS) and device driver development is a plus\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nUndergraddegree required. Bachelor of Science, Masters, or PhD degree with emphasis in Electrical Engineering, Computer architecture, or Computer Science with relevant experience preferred\nLOCATION;\nSan Jose, other locations will be considered.\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:\nAMD AI Group is seeking a highly influential technical leader for OneROCm - driving a unified ROCm software stack across AMD’s broad product portfolio, including Instinct, Radeon, Ryzen, Embedded, Game Consoles, and Autonomous Driving platforms. This is a rare opportunity to drive innovation, and help develop next-generation products(NPI) at company-wide scale. The ideal candidate will shape the end-to-end ROCm software and influence the full stack, spanning compilers, kernels, runtime, libraries, models, frameworks, and performance optimization layers. The role also requires strong hardware/software co-design to maximize performance across diverse AMD products and workloads. The ideal candidate is expected to be highly hands-on and embrace agentic AI workflows.\nTHE PERSON:\nYou are a strong technical leader who is able towork across organizations, align architecture with product goals, and influence innovation and execution. You bring deep expertisein at least one major area of the stack, while also demonstratingthe curiosity, adaptability, and technical breadth to learn new domains, grow their impact, and influence the broader ecosystem.\nAs a successful candidate, you are recognized for technical excellence, and the ability to deliver innovationsthrough collaboration across silicon, system software, AI/ML frameworks, libraries, and application enablement teams.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nHardware-Software Co-design: Collaborate across hardware architecture, compiler, math libraries, kerneland framework teams to influence future silicon features based on evolving AI workload trends.\nStrong Execution: Deliver innovations and roadmap for AI software stack across all AMD products, ensuring AMD remainsthe platform of choice for top-tier AI customers.\nWorkload Performance Engineering: Lead the profiling, analysis, and tuning of large-scale models (LLMs, Diffusion, Multimodal, and MoE) to ensure \"out-of-the-box\" performance excellence on AMD hardware.\nEcosystem Innovation: Drive the development of advanced tools and frameworks for performance estimation, modeling, and automated reporting.\nCustomer Engagement: Partner with top customers and hyperscalersto understand their unique workload requirements and deliver tailored architectural wins and software optimizations.\nCommunity & Open Source: Mentor and inspire otherengineersand contribute to ROCmOpensource.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\nKnowledge in GPU architectures, basic knowledge of CPU architecture \nExperience in AI/ML software stack spanning compilers, kernels, runtime, libraries, models, frameworks, and performance optimization layers\nUnderstanding of GPU programming such as ROCm, CUDA, OpenCL, etc\nExperience in hardware/software co-design, building high-performance products across the full product lifecycle.\nExperience with operating systems (OS) and device driver development is a plus\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nUndergraddegree required. 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