AI Engineer, Recursive Self-Improvement for Compute
Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$204k - $306kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Role focused on building recursive self-improvement systems for compute, at the intersection of AI systems, performance engineering, and hardware-aware optimization. Responsibilities include turning complex engineering tasks into repeatable optimization loops, ensuring correctness and measurable impact at scale.
Responsibilities
- Build agentic and learning-driven optimization loops for compute workloads and hardware engineering workflows.
- Develop systems that generate, compile, test, benchmark, profile, and iterate on candidate improvements with minimal human intervention.
- Convert high-value engineering workflows into verifiable tasks with clear graders, harnesses, metrics, and failure feedback.
- Collaborate with AI researchers on reward design, reward shaping, reward hacking analysis, long-horizon optimization, and model improvement loops.
- Design feedback systems that accumulate useful data from successful attempts, failed attempts, profiler traces, benchmark results, and validation logs.
- Improve iteration speed through staged validation, caching, parallel execution, proxy metrics, and faster feedback paths.
- Build reusable tools and patterns that can generalize across multiple compute and hardware optimization domains.
- Mentor other engineers and help set technical direction for self-improving AI systems for compute.
Qualifications
- - Strong software engineering experience in Python and at least one systems language such as C++, C, HIP, CUDA.
- - Experience building AI, ML, agentic, optimization, or automation systems that are evaluated with objective metrics.
- - Ability to design reliable experiment loops, benchmark harnesses, validation workflows, and correctness/performance evaluation pipelines.
- - Strong technical judgment in debugging, profiling, root-cause analysis, and performance-oriented iteration.
- - Clear communication skills and ability to work across AI research, hardware, software, and partner-facing teams.
Skills
Required:PythonC++AI systems developmentExperiment design and evaluation
Nice to have:HIP/CUDA
Benefits
- Benefits described in AMD benefits at a glance (link provided)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About AMD
together we advance_AI
AMD delivers leadership high-performance and adaptive computing solutions to advance data center AI, AI PCs, intelligent edge devices, gaming, & beyond.
AIData CenterHigh-Performance ComputingGamingEdge Devices
More open roles at AMD
- System Thermal Design Staff Engineer4d agoPenang, Malaysia · Engineering
- PD Engineer4d agoHybrid (Bangalore) · Engineering
- PD Engineer4d agoBangalore · Engineering
- Low-Power & CDC Verification Engineer4d agoSanta Clara, California · Engineering
- Technical Program Manager4d agoShanghai · Engineering