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Forward Deployed AI Research Scientist

AMD· Engineering
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Santa Clara, CA$204k - $306kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Role focused on bringing advanced AI capabilities into high-impact engineering and customer-facing workflows, combining applied AI research, prototyping, technical strategy, and field-facing collaboration to deliver measurable outcomes for AMD.

Responsibilities

  • Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities in compute, systems, software, and hardware engineering workflows.
  • Translate partner and customer needs into research questions, technical plans, evaluation criteria, and prototype paths.
  • Prototype and evaluate modern AI methods for engineering tasks, including agentic workflows, tool use, code generation, debugging, optimization, retrieval, and learning from feedback.
  • Partner with research and engineering teams to define metrics, evals, benchmarks, and acceptance criteria for AI-assisted workflows.
  • Build technical narratives, demos, and decision materials that help senior stakeholders understand tradeoffs, progress, risks, and strategic value.
  • Support strategic deals and collaborations by serving as a credible technical bridge between business goals and AI engineering reality.
  • Capture recurring customer and partner needs and turn them into reusable insights for product, research, platform, and engineering roadmaps.
  • Mentor teams on practical AI methods and help raise the quality of AI experimentation, evaluation, and communication across the organization.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in AI, machine learning, systems, or applied research, with ability to turn ideas into prototypes and measurable experiments.
  • Experience with modern generative AI methods, LLMs, agents, tool use, retrieval, post-training, evaluation, or applied ML systems.
  • Strong programming ability in Python and familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or similar.
  • Ability to work with technical stakeholders across software, hardware, infrastructure, research, product, and business teams.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex AI and systems topics clearly to both technical and executive audiences.

Skills

Required:AI/ML research and prototypingGenerative AI methods and toolsPython programming

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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