Senior Technical Fellow, Parallel Programming Performance Optimization & GPU Software Diagnostics

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you\'ll discover 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.

THE ROLE

The Senior Technical Fellow role is a company-level technical leadership position, accountable for defining and driving AMD\'s strategy, architecture, and tooling to achieve industry-leading GPU performance and reliability. You will partner across hardware architecture, silicon design, firmware, drivers, compilers, runtime, and developer tools to architect scalable performance methodologies, build advanced diagnostics to detect and isolate defects, and ensure product excellence from pre-silicon through customer deployment.

THE PERSON

• GPU / accelerator or HPC performance engineering, compilers, runtime systems, and / or reliability / diagnostics.
• Expert-level proficiency in parallel programming models such as HIP / ROCm, OpenCL, SYCL; CUDA interop, and performance tuning at scale.
• Deep knowledge of GPU microarchitecture (compute units / SIMD, wavefront scheduling, memory hierarchy, caches, shared / local memory, interconnects, PCIe / Infinity Fabric).
• Hands-on experience with profiling, instrumentation, and performance counters; familiarity with tools such as ROCm tools, Radeon GPU Profiler / Memory Visualizer, and LLVM-based toolchains.
• Proven track record building diagnostics : sanitizers, static / dynamic analysis, fuzzing, crash triage systems, telemetry pipelines; experience with kernel-level debugging and driver / runtime fault isolation.
• Strong systems background : Linux, kernel, drivers, multi-node HPC / cloud, NUMA, distributed training / inference pipelines.
• Proficiency in C / C++, Python; familiarity with LLVM IR, GPU ISA, and performance modeling.
• Demonstrated impact influencing architecture and shipping high-performance, reliable products at scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

LOCATION

Austin; Santa Clara; Markham

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