Principal Product Applications Engineer - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

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Principal Product Applications Engineer- Data Center GPU

THE TEAM:

AMD's Data Center GPU organization is transforming the industry with our AI based Graphic Processors. Our primary objective is to design exceptional products that drive the evolution of computing experiences, serving as the cornerstone for enterprise Data Centers, (AI) Artificial Intelligence, HPC and Embedded systems. If this resonates with you, come and joining our Data Center GPU organization where we are building amazing AI powered products with amazing people.

THE ROLE:

The Datacenter GPU Product Applications Engineer is a key technical lead, responsible for the technical execution of AMD's Datacenter graphics hardware/software subsystem projects for AMD OEM partners and enterprise commercial end-customers. This position offers a unique opportunity to apply your strong graphics, compute, datacenter, virtualization skills, AI / Machine Learning as well as program management skills, to collaboratively work with customers that use AMD Instinct™ Accelerators.

THE PERSON:

An engineer, computational scientist, or physicist with experience in multiple scientific computing domains and experience with using Machine Learning techniques in an AI setting. Must be self-motivated and possess the ability to work well within a team environment. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Resolve technical issues for customers that use AMD Instinct™ products.
• Assist development teams to root cause hardware / software technical issues and help to drive them to closure in a timely manner during the entire product lifecycle (i.e. from initial hardware bring-up through product end-of-life).
• Provide technical guidance and information to our customers in support of their server graphics and compute projects for AI and Machine Learning workloads.
• Mentor more junior members of the technical staff.
• Own the customer technical relationship and technical requirements.
• Provide technical guidance to internal teams based on customer feedback.
• Partner with program manager on project schedules, maintain action items tracker, ensure deliverables are met, provide project status updates to customers and AMD management.
• Build datacenter GPU dockers and containers for customers to test and deploy.
• Qualify and assess new software functionality to ensure customer compatibility. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in a datacenter customer support role.
• Expert Linux knowledge; install-setup, usage, debug.
• Strong knowledge of virtual environment, such as hypervisor vendors (VMWare, Citrix, KVM, Microsoft, etc.) and virtual machine setup and management.
• Familiar with datacenter GPU software stack such as AMD ROCm™ or Nvidia CUDA
• Knowledge of server architecture and functionality, including server remote management, network topologies, graphics software and hardware sub-systems
• Familiarity with distributed model training via NCCL/RCCL, MPI, or similar network technologies
• Experience in implementing and optimizing parallel methods on GPU accelerators in distributed memory systems with MPI, CUDA, HIP, OpenMP, etc.
• Familiar with AI / Machine learning workloads, frameworks, and models
• Understanding of site reliability engineering best practices.
• Strong debug, problem solving, and analysis.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Engineering or related subjects, or equivalent experience desired

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA preferred

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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