Staff Software Development Engineer

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THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for a specialized software engineer who is passionate about 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 GPU libraries team helps develop the ROCm software ecosystem, which powers the ultimate computing experience provided by our AMD Instinct GPUs. Highly tuned libraries are developed by large teams using C++, Python, HIP, and low-level GPU assembly programming. To grow these libraries with rich features and support customers at scale, development must follow great software design principles while striving for simplicity, ease-of-maintenance, and extensibility.

The Successful Candidate For This Role Will Be An Integral Part Of Our GPU Matrix & Tensor Operations Team By Helping With New Feature Development, Refactoring Code To Improve Modularity, Debugging, And Optimizing Performance. Relevant Open-source Projects Include:

https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-libraries/tree/develop/projects/hipblaslt

https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-libraries/tree/develop/projects/rocblas

THE PERSON:

• Possess excellent software skills in Python and C++
• Have low-level software optimization experience
• Have strong desire and ability to solve problems quickly
• Be able to schedule, and work on tasks independently
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be flexible and accept new challenges

• Plan, design, and refactor existing codebases to improve maintainability and extensibility across multiple target hardware configurations
• Develop new software designs to integrate a variety of code optimization patterns in a clear modular fashion in code generators
• Identify and help resolve functional and performance issues by working closely with libraries development teams and other internal engineering teams
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
• Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups

• 3+ years software development experience
• Proficient in C/C++ and Python programming, employing best software design practices
• Experience working with large-scale software development projects and understanding of PC architecture
• Proven experience in code optimizations for any architectures such as CPU/GPU/FPGA
• GPU software development or validation involving HIP, CUDA, or OpenCL
• Experience in system-level performance evaluations and debugging
• Ability to closely interact with architects, developers, and tuning teams to maintain and release production software
• Great communication and teamwork skills

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Do you want to develop math and communication libraries to enable high performance computing and machine learning workloads at Exascale? AMD is searching for talented and motivated mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to develop GPU libraries as part the open-source AMD ROCm™ Software platform (https://github.com/ROCm).The libraries group in AMD AI GPU Software (AGS) builds the GPU-accelerated, open-source math and communication libraries that power artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications on workstations, data centers, and super computers.

THE PERSON

You are accustomed to working in a dynamic, geographically distributed agile team, where partnership and collaboration are paramount. You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to express your work in a clear, cohesive fashion. You are results-oriented and accustomed to tight deadlines and changing priorities. Most importantly, you are constantly thinking of ways to improve performance of software and hardware.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Test and validate ROCm libraries on the newest AMD GPUs in pre-silicon and post-silicon scenarios.
• Work with the AGS Library software development teams to analyze problems and validate solutions.
• Provide code quality analyses and work with various teams to address technical debt.
• Benchmark, profile and optimize code to maximize throughput on single and multi-GPU systems.
• Work with key technical experts across AMD and with our partners and customers to improve ROCm applications, libraries, and tools.

• Background in debugging software in simulation and emulation environments, and on early hardware samples.
• In depth knowledge of C, C++ and assembly.
• Understanding of GPU architecture and GPU programming using HIP or CUDA.
• Automation of configuration environments, test execution and data collection.
• Use of AI for rapid code analysis and improvements.

• B.Sc. or B.Eng. degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent
• Advanced degrees, such as M.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D. are preferred.

Calgary, Canada

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