Software Development Engineer - #381976

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The Role

AMD is looking for an experienced software engineer to contribute to the development of AI solutions using AMD HW. You will contribute by working closely with our OEM customers, and other AMD engineering teams. You will work on various AI software stacks such as ROCm, or DirectML, and may develop demos or proof of concepts to demonstrate AMD's AI capabilities to our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to work on the cutting edge of GPU / AI technologies, with many industry leading firms!

The Person

We are looking for a candidate who will thrive in a dynamic environment, be a strong team player with demonstrated initiative, who is passionate about developing leading-edge products. The candidate is eager to explore both SW and HW engineering, and is comfortable communicating with customers. The candidate should be able to work independently, and with minimum supervision.

Key Responsibilities

• Enhancing and maintaining sophisticated production-level GPU AI technologies for our customers.
• Working primarily on Windows and Linux.
• Support, design and develop customer specific AI solutions, e.g. Large Language Models (LLM), Stable Diffusion, Audio Cancellation, etc
• Profiling and analysis to identify and resolve performance issues.
• Excellent communications skills to report status and actions on high-visibility investigations to varied audiences, from engineering to executive, and to engage with customer.
• Collaborating closely with various engineering teams to implement features and debug issues.
• Designing, prototyping, and evaluating new performance tools.
• Contributing to all phases of software development life cycle including requirements gathering, scoping, design, implementation, test, bug fixing and documentation.
• Validating GPU AI / ML features and performance for new hardware generations.
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Software Development Lifecycles
• Hardware Development Lifecycles
• Software Architecture
• Good understanding of test lifecycle, QA process & terminology.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language C++, Python.
• Strong understanding of PC hardware, SoC, Chipsets, Graphics cards, BIOS & VBIOS.
• Interest or experience in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, computer vision technologies.
• Understanding of parallel programming, ideally OpenCL, ROCm, CUDA, HIP
• Strong analysis, problem-solving & interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal & written communication skill is a must.
• Willing and patience to reproduce reported issues
• Approach problem analysis methodically
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science / Engineering, or 3-5 years of relevant working experience
• Certifications in Machine Learning fundamentals - Nice to have
  
  
  

LOCATION:

Markham, Canada

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