Sr. Manager - HPC & AI Applications Engineer

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

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: 

The AMD HPC & Sovereign AI applications team seeks a strong, experienced, collaborative leader with sharp technical skills to lead a highly educated and motivated team from the front in a hands-on manner. The candidate needs to have a demonstrated track record of development and leadership. The ability to interact with customers and partners is essential. You will work closely with stakeholders, diverse teams within AMD, external code owners, and customers to lead a development team in delivering high quality and performant HPC and AI applications for use on AMD GPU products.   

A successful candidate must be eligible for a US Department of Energy Q level access authorization. 

THE PERSON: 

You are passionate about performance and quality of software products. You continuously coordinate across organizations, bringing together developers, customers, and product engineers to deliver programs on-time. You delight in winning business by providing recognizable value to our customers.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead and manage a team of talented scientific domain experts, computational scientists, and performance optimization engineers to adapt and optimize HPC and AI applications to perform on AMD hardware 

• Lead the development and optimization of performance models, in collaboration with experts across AMD, to accurately project performance of HPC and AI applications in future generation hardware 

• Lead and coordinate technical content for customer RFPs and business proposals 

• Drive the delivery of Exascale ready applications to AMD business units and customers 

• Interact with stakeholders to establish program requirements and schedules  

• Work with other AMD teams to continuously improve AMD development software products 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• 5 years in management / leadership roles. 
• Excellent writing and presentation skills are required 

• Demonstrated track record of software team management 

• Technical expertise in foundational science, computer science, computer architecture, or computational mathematics, and experience in one or more of the following domains: 

• Computational Chemistry 

• Computational Geophysics 

• Oil and Gas applications 

• Weather Modelling 

• Applied Mathematics 

• AI/ML 

• Experience with JIRA or similar project management environment, ideally in an Agile software development environment. 

• Experience with large machine procurement processes and export control compliance is a plus 

• Experience managing and collaborating across a geographically distributed team (AMD has sites across North America, in Europe, and Asia) 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering or related scientific computing domains 

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA

Austin, TX 

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.