Sr. Staff Engineer, AI Models and Applications

AMD
San Jose, CA (Hybrid) / Seattle (Hybrid) / Austin (Hybrid)2026-02-26LAT_LNG

About the job

The AI Models and Applications team at AMD is looking for a specialized Sr. Staff level engineer who is passionate about enabling innovative and efficient Generative AI training/inferencing at scale. You will be part of a core team of incredibly talented specialists and work on scaling training and inference for the latest Generative AI models.

Responsibilities

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.

Implement novel efficient architectures for Generative AI models for training and inference and showcase benefits on AMD

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

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

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

Qualifications

Minimum

No minimum qualifications listed.

Preferred

Strong technical expertise in Gen AI model training and inference, and familiarity working with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch/JAX.

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 or low-precision training.

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

Experience productizing generative AI models and training foundation model at Scale

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

Several years of experience in AI, deep learning and related software development.