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Senior Director, ML Workload Performance

AMD

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Dec 27, 2025
San Jose, CA, US
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At AMD, the business problem is to accelerate next-generation computing experiences, from AI and data centers to PCs, gaming, and embedded systems, by building great products and solving the world's most important challenges through innovation and collaboration.

Requirements

  • Experience with ML hardware architecture, software optimization, performance modeling and latest trend in inference and training.
  • Experience in mapping model architecture to low level software, hardware and understanding the impact of each layer of the stack to model performance.
  • Strong knowledge in latest generative model architecture, especially SoTA models, distributed inference and deployment at scale.
  • Strong technical expertise and experience in performance analysis, projection, and hardware architecture.
  • PhD or Master plus equivalent experience in computer science, electrical engineer, or a related field.
  • 20+ years of experience leading a performance engineering team.
  • Strong leadership skills, ability to work collaboratively with customers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Set strategy and roadmap for AMD model optimization.
  • Lead, mentor and scale a word class high performance team focused on ML workload optimization.
  • Performance tuning, profiling and analysis of large-scale models for LLM, diffusion, multimodal, RecSys and generative AI, single node and distributed.
  • Partner with the business, customer solution, and various engineering organizations to deliver the best performance across AMD GPUs.
  • Participate in hardware-software co-design for future hardware optimization on various ML workloads.
  • Develop and improve framework, tools and infrastructure for performance estimation, modeling and reporting.
  • Communicate and present the results of the performance analysis and modeling to customers, stakeholders, and senior leadership.

Other

  • A PhD or Master plus equivalent experience in computer science, electrical engineer, or a related field.
  • 20+ years of experience leading a performance engineering team.
  • Strong leadership skills, ability to work collaboratively with customers and cross-functional teams.
  • Mentor, coach, and inspire a diverse and talented team of researchers and engineers.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, ability to coordinate internally and externally.