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Senior Director of AI SoftwareAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. • Santa Clara, CA, United States
Senior Director of AI Software

Senior Director of AI Software

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. • Santa Clara, CA, United States
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Overview

At AMD, we are enabling the next generation of AI innovation by leveraging the power of our GPU architecture to accelerate AI workloads. As part of the AI / ML Framework Department, you will lead multiple teams focused on the enablement, optimization, and integration of AI Software models across AMD's GPU platform. This critical leadership role is responsible for ensuring that AI Software models run efficiently and at scale on AMD GPUs, driving high performance across training and real-time Software tasks.

In this role, you will oversee the enablement and optimization of AI Software teams, ensuring seamless compatibility with AMD's ROCm platform. You will work closely with AMD's hardware and software teams to deliver best-in-class AI solutions, ensuring that AMD's GPUs continue to provide outstanding performance for industry-leading AI Software development.

The Role

Leading multiple teams to enable, optimize, and integrate AI Software models across AMD's GPU platform, with a focus on ensuring efficient and scalable AI workloads on AMD GPUs.

The Person

To be successful in this role, you will be a hands-on leader with strong technical skills and demonstrated success shipping software in an Agile environment. You are passionate about hiring and developing your team as well as planning and managing key engineering initiatives. You have outstanding people leadership skills to lead, motivate, and guide world-class engineers working in a fast-paced, matrixed, global environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leadership & Team Management : Lead and develop teams responsible for AI software model enablement and optimization, driving growth and success within the department.
  • AI Software & Training Optimization : Direct efforts to optimize AI frameworks for seamless compatibility and performance on AMD GPUs (Instinct, Navi).
  • Model Tuning & Performance : Oversee benchmarking, performance tuning, and optimization of AI Software models to improve latency, throughput, and efficiency on AMD hardware.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration : Partner with hardware, software, and QA teams to ensure tight integration of AI frameworks with ROCm for maximum performance.
  • Innovation & Strategy : Drive AI model optimization innovations, enhancing the speed, efficiency, and scalability of AI workloads. Lead the vision and strategy for optimizing AI Software on AMD GPUs.
  • Customer & Community Engagement : Collaborate with customers and open-source communities to ensure that AMD's AI solutions meet industry needs, fostering contributions to MIGraphX, vLLM, and other AMD AI Framework Software teams.
  • Automation & Scaling : Oversee automation frameworks to streamline model integration and performance testing, ensuring scalability across diverse AI workloads.

Preferred Experience

  • Leadership : 10+ years in AI / ML software development, with 5+ years in leadership roles managing AI model enablement or optimization teams.
  • AI Software Optimization : Expertise in optimizing real-time AI models for deep learning applications (computer vision, NLP, etc.).
  • AI Frameworks : Proficiency with AI frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, JAX, Triton) and their optimization for GPU architectures.
  • GPU Optimization : Strong background in optimizing software for AMD GPUs or similar high-performance platforms. Familiarity with ROCm is a plus.
  • Benchmarking & Performance Tuning : Proven experience with performance optimization, benchmarking, and scaling AI models on GPUs.
  • Collaboration & Strategy : Exceptional ability to collaborate cross-functionally and define long-term strategies for AI / ML innovation.
  • Communication : Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and working with customers and partners.
  • Academic Credentials

  • Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, AI / ML, or related field.
  • Contributions to open-source AI projects or community-driven initiatives are a plus.
  • Location : Santa Clara, California, US

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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 employers and will consider all applicants without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. EOE / MFDV

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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.

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