AI/ML Validation Engineer

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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 AI solutions validation Engineer who is passionate about complex AI solutions, AI infrastructure, building cluster scale automation for distributed training and inference workloads, MLOps. 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 PERSON: 

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering, system design, validation, automation and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to validate AI solutions for distributed training and inference workloads with AMD's ROCM software

Build cluster scale automation for distributed training and inference workloads

Publish reference designs and benchmark numbers for AI workloads

Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts 

Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies 

Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups 

Develop technical relationships with peers and partners 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

Good experience with complex compute systems used in AI, HPC deployments, backend network designs in RDMA clusters

Experience in validating complex AI infrastructure - GPUs, networking, ROCEv2, UEC, running benchmark tests like IBPerf benchmarking, RCCL/NCCL. 

Experience with running training of LLMs, MoE models, Image Generation, recommendations models with different frameworks like PyTorch, Tensorflow, Megatron-LM, JAX. Running training performance benchmarks.

Experience with running inference workloads in AI clusters with different inference frameworks like vLLM, SGLang. Running performance benchmarks for inference.

Experience with distributed systems and schedulers like Kubernetes, Slurm

Ability to write high quality automation frameworks and scripts using Python or Golang 

Experience with performance profiling of CPUs, GPUs and debugging complex compute, network, storage problems.

Experience with AMD ROCM would be an added advantage

Experience with Linux, Windows operating systems

Effective communication and problem-solving skills 

PREFERRED ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

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

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