About the job
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.
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.
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/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