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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: 

AMD is looking for an experienced and passionate software engineer to contribute in the design, development, and maintenance of high-quality open-source software libraries at the intersection of C++, AI, and modern software engineering. In this role, you will be part of an agile team, contribute directly to core codebases, and collaborate with our internal and external stakeholders to create impactful, well-documented, and widely adopted libraries

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate thrives in collaborative development environments, values software craftsmanship, and has a strong interest in AI frameworks like PyTorch and scalable library design.  Problem-solving skills, a proactive approach, and a keen understanding of software engineering best practices are essential.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Participate in collaborative teams to design, implement, validate, and deliver key software library capabilities, ensuring successful integration with GPU kernels into broader systems.
• Contribute to architecture, design, and documentation efforts as they arise across teams and on open source projects
• Review project scope and seek opportunities to broaden and align work in collaboration with library owners and colleagues.

• Debug/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work 
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners
• Leverages AIassisted software development tools to accelerate design, implementation, review, and documentation of complex software libraries. Establishes best practices for responsible use of AI assistance, including validation, review, and traceability of generated code and technical artifacts. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Extensive and broad hands-on experience with modern C++

• Knowledge or applied experience with popular AI/ML Frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow 
• Experience with open-source software development including collaboration with community maintainers and submitting contributions working with tools like GitHub
• Experience implementing professional software engineering practices, requirements elicitation and analysis methods, scoping/estimating, coding standards, code reviews, version control, build processes, testing, and continuous integration
• Applied experience using AIassisted coding tools in professional software engineering workflows, including code generation, refactoring, test creation, documentation, and design exploration.   

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

THE ROLE: 

AMD is looking for a specialized software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

The GPU libraries team helps develop the ROCm software ecosystem, which powers the ultimate computing experience provided by our AMD Instinct GPUs. Highly tuned libraries are developed by large teams using C++, Python, HIP, and low-level GPU assembly programming. To grow these libraries with rich features and support customers at scale, development must follow great software design principles while striving for simplicity, ease-of-maintenance, and extensibility.
The successful candidate for this role will be an integral part of our GPU Matrix & Tensor operations team by helping with new feature development, refactoring code to improve modularity, debugging, and optimizing performance. Relevant open-source projects include:

https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-libraries/tree/develop/projects/hipblaslt

https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-libraries/tree/develop/projects/rocblas

THE PERSON: 

• Possess excellent software skills in Python and C++
• Have low-level software optimization experience
• Have strong desire and ability to solve problems quickly
• Be able to schedule, and work on tasks independently
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be flexible and accept new challenges

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Plan, design, and refactor existing codebases to improve maintainability and extensibility across multiple target hardware configurations
• Develop new software designs to integrate a variety of code optimization patterns in a clear modular fashion in code generators
• Identify and help resolve functional and performance issues by working closely with libraries development teams and other internal engineering teams
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture 
• Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies 
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• 3+ years software development experience
• Proficient in C/C++ and Python programming, employing best software design practices
• Experience working with large-scale software development projects and understanding of PC architecture
• Proven experience in code optimizations for any architectures such as CPU/GPU/FPGA
• GPU software development or validation involving HIP, CUDA, or OpenCL
• Experience in system-level performance evaluations and debugging
• Ability to closely interact with architects, developers, and tuning teams to maintain and release production software
• Great communication and teamwork skills

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

THE ROLE

Do you want to develop math and communication libraries to enable high performance computing and machine learning workloads at Exascale?  AMD is searching for talented and motivated mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to develop GPU libraries as part the open-source AMD ROCm™ Software platform (https://github.com/ROCm).The libraries group in AMD AI GPU Software (AGS) builds the GPU-accelerated, open-source math and communication libraries that power artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications on workstations, data centers, and super computers.

THE PERSON

You are accustomed to working in a dynamic, geographically distributed agile team, where partnership and collaboration are paramount.  You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to express your work in a clear, cohesive fashion.  You are results-oriented and accustomed to tight deadlines and changing priorities.  Most importantly, you are constantly thinking of ways to improve performance of software and hardware.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Test and validate ROCm libraries on the newest AMD GPUs in pre-silicon and post-silicon scenarios.
• Work with the AGS Library software development teams to analyze problems and validate solutions.
• Provide code quality analyses and work with various teams to address technical debt.
• Benchmark, profile and optimize code to maximize throughput on single and multi-GPU systems.
• Work with key technical experts across AMD and with our partners and customers to improve ROCm applications, libraries, and tools.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Background in debugging software in simulation and emulation environments, and on early hardware samples.
• In depth knowledge of C, C++ and assembly.
• Understanding of GPU architecture and GPU programming using HIP or CUDA.
• Automation of configuration environments, test execution and data collection.
• Use of AI for rapid code analysis and improvements.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• B.Sc. or B.Eng. degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent
• Advanced degrees, such as M.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D. are preferred.

LOCATION:

Calgary, Alberta

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Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.