Lead Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Listed on 2026-01-02
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Software Development
AI Engineer, Software Engineer
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
As a
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
, you willworkclosely with ourmost strategic partners as a hands-on technical expert.
Youare responsible for turning AMD’scutting-edge
AI technology into tangible business value. This role is a unique blend of customer relationship skills and elite software engineer; you will work side-by-side with clients to help themprove outandultimately deploy
AI solutions on AMD GPUs. You will be the trusted technical advisor and hands-on developer who makes it happen.
In this role, you will:
- Work closely with strategic customers to understand their requirements challenges andidentifyopportunities for AMD hardware and software to provide value.
- Close gaps in the AMD software stack needed to support customer solutions.
- Work hands-on as a technical expert and creative problem-solver,developing side-by-side with customers to drive projects from proof of concept to production.
- Act as the voice of the customer, translating their needs and your on-the-ground insights into actionable feedback that shapes the future of AMD's AI roadmap.
- Thrive in unfamiliar territory with a high degree of autonomy, finding novel ways to apply AMD technology to real-world problems.
We are looking for a proactive and skilled software engineer with a passion for solving complex technical puzzles. You have a bias for action and excel at working directly with customers to analyze their code and help them achieve their objectives. You combine deep technical acumen with strong collaboration skills to ensure our partners succeed with AMD technology.
Thisis a senior levelrole, you must have post collegeexperience.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
- Experience with
GPUkernel programming using CUDA, HIP or OpenCL. - Experience with collective communication and attentions.
- Strong performance analysis and optimization skills for both CPU andGPU.
- Expertise with modern AI/ML frameworks (e.g.,PyTorch, Tensor Flow, JAX).
- Experience with distributed training and inference frameworks.
- A track recordofdirect
Client
Engagement with experience working with customers to solve ambiguous technical problems. - Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Singularity, Docker, and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience with open-source software development including collaboration with community maintainers andsubmittingcontributions.
- Experience with software engineering methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- BS/MS/PhD with related experience in
Computer
Scienceorrelated equivalent.
- Experience incompiler, ISA.
- Experience shipping software in an end-customer production environment.
- Experience in implementing and optimizing collectivecommunication primitiveson
GPUaccelerators (NCCL/RCCL). - Experience in implementing and optimizing attention and KV-cache primitiveson
GPUaccelerators. - Experience inallphases of software development, from requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing to final release.
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD.
- Experience providing clear andtimelycommunication related to status and other key aspects of the project tothe executive leadership team.
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