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Job Role and Responsibility: AMD, Inc. is hiring PMTS Software Development Eng. to Develop and optimize low-level GPU kernels to accelerate inference and training of large machine learning models. Maximize the computational efficiency and reduce execution time while ensuring model accuracy. Design and implement strategies for distributed model training and inference across multiple GPUs and nodes. Address data parallelism and model parallelism challenges to fully utilize available resources. Profile and analyze system and application performance to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Use profiling tools to understand and optimize hardware resource utilization. Leverage parallel computing techniques to improve the scalability and performance of machine learning workloads. Implement multi-threading and GPU synchronization techniques. Explore and apply model quantization techniques to reduce memory and computation overhead, especially for edge and cloud deployment. Develop benchmarks and testing procedures to assess the performance and stability of optimized models and frameworks. Ensure that the solutions meet or exceed the defined performance criteria. Collaborate closely with machine learning researchers, software engineers, and infrastructure teams to integrate optimized kernels and solutions into production systems. Create detailed documentation of optimizations, best practices, and implementation guidelines to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintainable code. Utilize knowledge of computers and electronics, including circuit boards, processors, chips, and electronic equipment, as well as knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles. Apply knowledge of engineering principles, best practices, and technologies to the design, development, and testing of various company proprietary products.

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Travel required: NO

Qualifications: Degree required

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.

Qualifications: Amount and type of experience required: Five (5) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role.

Alternate combination of education and experience: Employer will accept alternate combination of education and experience: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role.

Specific skills required: The following skills are required:

Position requires two (2) years of experience in the following:

• Designing, implementing, and testing computer hardware;
• Working with architecture and software teams to write specifications for the microarchitecture design;
• Power design concepts like multiple power domain, power gating, and data retention;
• Verilog RTL coding;
• UVM testbench;
• VLSI Design;
• Scripting languages, including Perl, Python, and TCL/TK; and
• FPGA.

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