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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.\nPrincipal Member of Technical Staff - ROCm Validation & System-Level Quality\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) to serve as the senior technical leader for ROCm software validation across compute workloads and server-class systems. In this individual-contributor leadership role, you will define how AMD proves ROCm is ready to ship - from unit and component testing, through full-stack workload validation, to multi-node system-level qualification on AMD Instinct™ GPU platforms. You will set the technical direction for validation strategy, build and evolve the test infrastructure that gates every ROCm release, and personally drive the hardest debugging, characterization, and qualification problems. 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Comfort designing prompts, tool/MCP integrations, evaluation harnesses, and guardrails for autonomous and semi-autonomous agents.\nHands-on experience defining and shipping release qualification programs for software consumed by hyperscalers, OEMs, or other Tier-1 customers.\nMastery of GitHub at scale for quality engineering - PR gating, GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, required status checks, release tagging, and open-source contribution and triage norms.\nStrong command of modern, agile software development practices - trunk-based development, CI/CD, shift-left testing, observability, feature flags, and incremental delivery - applied specifically to validation organizations.\nExcellent written and verbal communication - able to author crisp test plans, qualification reports, RFCs, and post-mortems, and to influence development teams without authority.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDirect contributions to validation, CI, or test infrastructure for ROCm, PyTorch, LLVM, Triton, vLLM, or comparable upstream open-source projects.\n Demonstrated leadership in agentic-AI adoption - built or rolled out agent-based workflows across an engineering team (e.g., autonomous test generation, AI-driven log/triage pipelines, multi-agent debug systems, MCP server design, retrieval-augmented engineering knowledge bases) with measurable outcomes.\nExperience operating or validating large GPU clusters (256+ GPUs) - fabric bring-up, cluster health monitoring, and fleet-level diagnostics.\nFamiliarity with Training/Inference/HPC industry-standard benchmark methodologies and submissions.\nBackground in performance validation: roofline analysis, profiler tooling (rocprof, Omniperf, Nsight-class), regression detection\nExperience with fault injection, RAS, telemetry, and long-haul stability programs for accelerator platforms.\nFamiliarity with hardware lab automation: BMC/IPMI/Redfish, PDU control, serial-console capture, automated re-imaging, and topology-aware test scheduling.\nPrior experience standing up validation for pre-silicon / emulation / first-silicon bring-up of accelerators.\nWhy This Role\nROCm powers AI and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct GPUs at the largest scale in the industry. The quality of every ROCm release is felt across millions of GPUs in production - and the validation organization is what stands between \"code complete\" and \"customer ready.\" As Principal MTS for ROCm Validation, you will define that bar, build the systems that enforce it, and personally lead the toughest qualification problems on AMD's most strategic platforms.\nAMD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\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.\nPrincipal Member of Technical Staff - ROCm Validation & System-Level Quality\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) to serve as the senior technical leader for ROCm software validation across compute workloads and server-class systems. In this individual-contributor leadership role, you will define how AMD proves ROCm is ready to ship - from unit and component testing, through full-stack workload validation, to multi-node system-level qualification on AMD Instinct™ GPU platforms. You will set the technical direction for validation strategy, build and evolve the test infrastructure that gates every ROCm release, and personally drive the hardest debugging, characterization, and qualification problems. 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