Distributed Inferencing Software Engineer - AI Models

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The Role

AMD is looking for a software engineer who is passionate about Distributed Inferencing on AMD GPUs, and improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

The Person

Strong technical and analytical skills in C++/Python AI development, solving performance and investigating scalability on multi-GPU, multi-node clusters. Ability to work as part of a team, while also being able to work independently, define goals and scope and lead your own development effort.

Key Responsibilities

Enable, benchmark AI models on distributed systems

Work in a distributed computing setting to optimize for both scale-up (multi-GPU) / scale-out (multi-node) / scale-across systems

Collaborate and interact with internal GPU library teams to analyze and optimize distributed workloads for high throughput/low latency

Expertise on parallelization strategies for AI workloads - and application for best performance for each configuration

Contribute to distributed model management, model zoos, monitoring, benchmarking and documentation

Preferred Experience

Knowledge of GPU computing (HIP, CUDA, OpenCL)

AI framework engineering experience (vLLM, SGLang, Llama.cpp)

Understanding of KV cache transfer mechanisms, options (Mooncake, NIXL/RIXL) and Expert Parallelization (DeepEP/MORI/PPLX-Garden)

Excellent C/C++/Python programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design.

Experiences to run workloads, especially AI models, on large scale heterogeneous cluster

Familiarity with clusters and orchestration software (SLURM, K8s)

Academic Credentials

Masters or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

AMD benefits at a glance.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.