Senior Director Software Development (AI Group)

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THE TEAM: 

Our team, AIG SHARK, aims to build AI software solutions that are unified, performant, flexible, and customizable while also being the catalyst of AI software development across AMD. Open source is at the heart of everything we do and is critical to our success. We believe in the power of the community and together we can build a great stack that benefits everyone. We embrace a fast-paced, agile approach, leveraging modern development practices to deliver value quickly. Being a part of AMD and AIG, it also means we have a wide portfolio of hardware and customers to support realized product excellence and business impacts.  

THE ROLE: 

We're seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Director to help shift-left and “shift-open" the overall development processes of our GPU development stack. The focus will be on building test automation infrastructure and the role will require some hands-on work for early bring-up of additional test automation infrastructure. 

The impact you will have: 

• Accelerate the development and delivery of our overall GPU portfolio 

• Drive decisions that impact the entire developer ecosystem around AI inference and training on AMD GPUs 

• Grow leaders across AMD by teaching them best practices in test automation and shift-left benefits. 

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate will have experience with enabling shift-left test automation in large open-source projects and be capable of hands-on development of test automation software when necessary. The person will also need experience building organizations and collaborating with stakeholders across a company. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Architect our overall test automation strategy and architecture 

• Building a team from the ground-up to implement the above strategy 

• Hands-on prototyping of new test automation workflows as needed collaborating with build automation architects and other teams building infrastructure across AMD 

• Define and track key performance metrics for test automation such as e2e test times, test coverage, device utilization, and costs. 

• Work closely with developers to understand their pain points and challenges with test workflows. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• 10  years of experience in software engineering 

• 5 years of software engineering management 

• Expertise on build or test automation at scale. 

• Expertise on build and test automation systems leveraged by large open-source projects 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Deep knowledge of the GitHub build and test automation ecosystem and hands-on experience building complex test automation workflows optimizing for cost and overall test performance. 

• Experience with test automation for GPU accelerators 

• Experience on test automation for both Windows and Linux 

• Expertise building teams from scratch 

 
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