Principal ML/AI Solutions Engineer

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THE ROLE:

AMD's Software and Solutions Team is seeking a Principal ML/AI Solutions Engineer to empower customers and partners in adopting AMD's AI software stack. This role requires strong technical depth in machine learning frameworks, GPU workflows, and enterprise architecture, paired with excellent communication and customer-facing skills.The role spans development, integration, deployment, and performance analysis, ensuring innovative, efficient, and scalable AI solutions on AMD GPUs.

THE PERSON:

A highly motivated and passionate professional with deep expertise in ML/AI systems and a proven track record in collaboration, problem-solving, and technical execution.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional, highly technical environments working closely with customers, ISVs, cloud partners, and engineering teams.

This individual excels at engaging directly with enterprise stakeholders to understand complex workloads, lead technical deep dives, deliver reference architectures, and guide solution integrations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work across reference design creation, workflow optimization, performance tuning, and ecosystem enablement
• Collaborate with engineering teams, ISVs, cloud partners, and enterprise customers will be essential to guide real-world AI deployments and translate customer insights into actionable engineering direction.

• Drive innovation by prototyping and demonstrating end-to-end AI workflows across training, fine-tuning, and inference; developing validated designs, notebooks, and performance playbooks; and providing structured feedback to AMD's ROCm, frameworks, platform, and performance engineering teams.
• Champion AMD technologies within the AI community, build demos and best-practice content, influence product roadmaps, validate ecosystem integrations such as vLLM and Triton, and support partner technology readiness-ultimately advancing AMD's AI ecosystem and improving workload efficiency at scale.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive expertise in ML/AI engineering, distributed training, and GPU computing, along with strong experience in customer engagement, enterprise solution design, and technical advocacy. Knowledge of modern ML workloads (LLMs, generative AI, RAG, CV, fine-tuning) and hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, inference runtimes, and containerized GPU environments is essential.
• Familiarity with ROCm, CUDA, AMD MI300/MI325 platforms, MLOps systems, data pipelines, and cloud-native deployment architectures is highly desirable.
• Additional experience developing demos, validated designs, reproducible notebooks, or technical content is strongly preferred.
• A strong understanding of industry trends and competitive AI technologies is necessary to guide scalable solution development and optimize workload performance.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related equivalent

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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