Senior AI Performance Engineer
About this role
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.
SENIOR AI PERFORMANCE ENGINEER
Responsibilities
- AMD is looking for a performance-obsessed engineer to push AI inference performance to the limit on AMD GPUs. You will work end-to-end across the stack: profiling, diagnosing, and optimizing leading models on customer-relevant serving configurations (e.g. agentic coding, long-context, high-throughput serving). You tackle hard performance problems across strategic customer engagements and leave behind measurable uplifts. This is not a sustaining role: every engagement is different, every optimization leaves a lasting impact.
- THE PERSON:
- You can take an AI workload, understand it top to bottom, and make it faster. You are comfortable profiling a serving deployment, diagnosing a kernel-level bottleneck, and presenting results to a customer's engineering team. You understand GPU kernel performance: not just how to use profiling tools, but how to reason about occupancy, cache behavior, memory coalescing, and instruction-level bottlenecks. You are AI-fluent: you leverage AI agents and tools daily to accelerate your work. You move fast and measure everything.
- KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Drive performance optimization across the stack on leading models and customer-relevant serving configurations, closing competi