GPU Software Engineer - GPU Libraries
San Jose, CA$152k - $228kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Member of Technical Staff role in the GPU Libraries group, contributing to AMD’s ROCm ecosystem by designing, implementing, validating, and delivering GPU library capabilities across high-performance computing and machine learning workloads. Collaborative, technically hands-on position focused on architecture, development, performance, and mentorship within an agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively across library teams to design, implement, validate, and deliver key software library capabilities, ensuring successful integration with GPU kernels into broader systems. Provides significant technical inputs to the software roadmap.
- Provides input to architecture, design, and documentation efforts as they arise across teams. Works closely with senior engineering staff to guide technical execution within library teams on broad and complex technical challenges.
- Collaborate with principal members of staff to develop the best technical designs and approaches that holistically consider constraints, performance, and roadmap commitments. Execute, and report progress against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Proactively identifies gaps and inconsistencies at project scope and develops plans to remediate in collaboration with library owners and engineering principal colleagues.
- Engages in mentorships with senior and principal staff and champion internal best-practices as part of the regular software development lifecycle in an agile environment.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with C++, with relevant applied experience using CUDA, HIP, OpenMP, MPI, or OpenCL for accelerated computing on CPUs and GPUs.
- Familiarity with other programming languages like Python and AI/ML Frameworks.
- Experience contributing to technical and high-performance software systems supported by continuous improvement, regression and performance management systems, and software deployment and orchestration management (Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/numerical methods and analysis).
- Experience with open-source software development including collaboration with community maintainers and submitting contributions, and various lifecycle methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle including requirements elicitation and analysis, scoping/estimation, coding standards, code reviews, version control, build processes, testing, and continuous integration.
Skills
Required:C++CUDAHIP OpenMP MPI OpenCL
Nice to have:PythonOpen-source software development
Benefits
- AMD benefits at a glance (link provided in posting)
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