AMD ยท 2 weeks ago
Senior Director, ML Workload Performance
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$279K/yr - $418K/yr
20+ years expAMD is a company dedicated to building great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences. The Senior Director of ML Workload Performance will lead a team focused on optimizing machine learning workloads and performance across various frameworks, while collaborating with business units and customers to provide innovative solutions.
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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. In addition to exploring various tradeoffs and design decisions
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. And provide a concrete recommendation
Cross team collaboration and working across the organization to identify opportunities and develop strategies
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of building and leading a world-class performance engineering team
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
Preferred
20+ years of experience leading a performance engineering team
Strong technical expertise and experience in performance analysis, projection, and hardware architecture
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
A PhD or Master plus equivalent experience in computer science, electrical engineer, or a related field
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