Application Software Optimization Engineer, High Performance Computing and AI

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Application Software Optimization Engineer, High Performance Computing and AI

THE ROLE:

Would you like to be part of a world class team enabling applications for high performance computing? AMD is searching for talented and highly motivated computational scientists/engineers to join our team of developers preparing applications for supercomputing platforms across industry, academia, and national laboratories.

This position is for a variable experience level optimization engineer in high performance computing. You will be part of a team testing, porting and tuning a wide variety of scientific applications for AMD GPU platforms.

THE PERSON:

A computational scientist, physicist, or engineer with experience in at least one scientific computing domain and strong GPU programming skills. Extensive experience with MPI communications packages and internals is essential. A track record of collaborating with others on applications and libraries widely used by the scientific computing community is a plus. Must be self-motivated and possess the ability to work well within a team environment.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS AND EXPERIENCE:

• PhD in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Engineering or related subjects
• Advanced candidates bring an additional 3-5 years of relevant industry experience
• GPU programming experience of at least two years in an academic or industrial setting is highly desired
• Detailed knowledge of the MPI communications layer is essential including understanding of internals (libfabrics, verbs)
• Working knowledge of a major AI framework (PyTorch / TensorFlow) or exposure to a converged HPC/AI code is a plus

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Port and optimize a variety of scientific applications for AMD GPU systems
• Provide MPI domain specific knowledge to other groups at AMD
• Engage with AMD product groups to drive resolution of application and customer issues
• Develop and present training materials to internal audiences, at customer venues, and at industry conferences

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Exposure to one scientific computing discipline such as finite element analysis, computational chemistry, fluid dynamics, weather modeling, and oil and gas applications
• Extensive experience with MPI collectives and communication layers is essential
• Extensive experience with diagnosing and debugging MPI performance issues is essential
• Extensive experience with modern Fortran or C/C++
• Strong performance analysis skills ideally for both CPU and GPU
• Experience in implementing and optimizing parallel methods on GPU accelerators in distributed memory systems with MPI, CUDA, HIP, OpenMP, etc.
• Experience with a converged HPC/AI application or ML is a plus
• Broad experience creating, adapting, and running workloads with widely used HPC applications is a plus
• Familiarity with installation and setup of various HPC applications is a plus
• Experience with build system tools including Make, CMake, autoconf, and autotools
• In-depth knowledge of software development practices including debug, test, revision control, documentation, and bug tracking
• Strong team development skills including demonstrated expertise with git
• Ability to work well in geographically dispersed teams

LOCATION:

Austin, TX; Santa Clara, CA, or remote

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