Sr. Manager Software Development, AI Models and Applications

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THE ROLE: The AI Models and Applications team at AMD is looking for a specialized senior manager who is passionate about enabling innovative and efficient Generative AI training/inferencing at scale. You will lead a core team of incredibly talented specialists and will work with the latest Generative AI algorithm and software technology.

THE PERSON: The ideal candidate has deep technical understanding of the latest generative AI applications like large language models (LLMs), large multimodal models (LMMs), image/video generation and is passionate about innovating efficient approaches to enable on AMD devices. You have outstanding people leadership skills to lead, motivate, and guide your team working in a fast-paced organization. Strong ability to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.

Why Join Us?

• Exciting Opportunities: As a Senior Manager for AI Models Software Development, you will be at the forefront of innovation, working with the latest Gen AI models and algorithms. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of AI model training and inference optimizations across a variety of applications.

• Talented Team: Join a team of highly skilled industry specialists who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI. Collaborate with like-minded professionals and learn from the best in the field.

• Cutting-edge Technology: Work with state-of-the-art AI algorithm and software technology, enabling you to stay ahead of the curve and drive advancements in AI model development.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly impact the performance and efficiency of AI models, making a significant difference in various industries and applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead a team focusing on research, design, and implement novel methods for efficient Generative AI.

• Propose and apply innovative techniques to support both training and inferencing including innovative transformer architectures, parallelism strategies to train on large clusters, low-precision training, model quantization, and acceleration for algorithms on various AMD platform, e.g., GPU/CPU/AIE.

• Collaborate with software and hardware team to E2E co-optimize performance on current and future AMD solutions.

• Work with open-source framework and community (e.g., Pytorch, JAX, Huggingface) to integrate AMD optimized models, libraries and publish training recipes.

• Publish and promote your work within AMD and at external venues.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Strong technical expertise in Gen AI model training and inference, and familiarity working with deep learning frameworks like Pytorch/JAX/vLLM/SGLang

• Strong technical expertise in algorithmic innovation towards efficient Gen AI application for both training and inferencing; Expertise/publications in one of the areas preferred - efficient model architectures, optimized training, innovative parallelism strategies, low-precision training, model quantization

• Additional plus if publications include conferences such as NeuRIPS, CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, ICML, ICLR, etc.

• Experience productizing any of the following also a plus: LLMs, Large Multi-modal models, 3D World Model or agentic workflows

• Strong leadership and management skills.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, ability to coordinate internally and externally.

• Several years of experience in AI, deep learning and related software development, along with experience mentoring and managing high performing teams

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Master's degree or above; with major in CS, EE, Mathematics, or a related field.

LOCATION:

San Jose, CA, or Bellevue, WA. Hybrid options are available.

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