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Principal Software Development Engineer

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Pay not postedSanta Clara, CAPrincipal

Principal software engineering lead responsible for optimizing applications, benchmarks, and GPU-accelerated AI workloads while closing gaps in AMD’s software stack.

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At a glance

Posted base pay

Not posted

The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales (not covered)
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations (not covered)
Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
External customers
Level
Senior
Role
Technical lead

What they ask for

Tools

  • C/C++
  • Python
  • CUDA
  • HIP
  • NCCL
  • RCCL
  • vLLM
  • SGLang
  • KV-cache
  • GPU kernel programming

Visa

  • No visa sponsorship

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Company stage: Public33%
  • Company size: About 5,000+ people38%
  • Covers proofs of concept39%
  • Individual contributor or manager: Technical lead47%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

What you’ll do

  • Partner with strategic customers to identify hardware and software opportunities and solve ambiguous technical problems
  • Close software-stack gaps and optimize GPU collective communication primitives using NCCL/RCCL
  • Develop and optimize customer solutions from proof of concept through production
  • Translate customer insights into actionable feedback for AMD’s AI roadmap

What you’ll bring

  • Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python
  • Experience with GPU kernel programming using CUDA or HIP
  • Expertise with LLM serving frameworks such as vLLM or SGLang
  • Experience optimizing attention and KV-cache primitives on GPU accelerators

About AMD

Designs high-performance and adaptive computing products—CPUs, GPUs, networking and embedded processors—for data centers, PCs, gaming and embedded systems.

Public · 5000+ people

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
Pay not posted
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Employment type
Full-time
Visa sponsorship
Not available

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