What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Memory and Processing Researcher position at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc?
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THE ROLE:
AMD Research and Advanced Development is seeking a researcher to create and analyze memory architecture enhancements on irregular workloads for AI and HPC applications.
THE PERSON:
You love inventing and implementing new features to increase efficiency and optimize performance. You love bringing new systems to life and developing software that shows the full power of novel hardware architectures. Are you ready to work with fast paced peers? Then join us!
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Invent, design and analyze processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture extensions to help drive performance enhancements for AI workloads.
- Identify consequent simplifications of the processor requirements to support such workloads.
- Drive the results of the research projects into product roadmaps.
- Collaborate with teams within AMD Research and Advanced Development, product groups, and vendor partners to help improve the AMD HPC ecosystem.
- Submit patentable inventions.
- Clearly communicate research findings to academic, product and commercial audiences.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Demonstrated experience in ideation, evaluation, and optimization of a research project.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to organize and present complex technical information.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong skills in C/C , Python and/or GPU programming
PREFERRED/ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCES:
- Experience with High Performance Computing.
- Experience with the AMD ROCm software stack.
- Version control systems such as Git.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- PhD or equivalent research accomplishments in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field preferred.
LOCATION: Santa Clara, Ca
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