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AMD

Sr. Forward Deployed AI Engineer

AI summary of the role

This is a forward-deployed AI engineering role at AMD, focused on building and deploying production-grade AI systems for enterprise customers.

What you’ll do

  • Partner with customer engineering teams to understand workflows and identify AI automation opportunities.
  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications, LLM agents, and engineering automation solutions.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and data pipelines to measure model quality and business impact.
  • Build and evaluate LLM post-training solutions including fine-tuning, RL, preference optimization, and reward modeling.

What you’ll bring

  • Strong software engineering in Python and at least one systems language (C++, Rust, C, TypeScript, CUDA, HIP).
  • Proven experience building production AI/ML systems beyond prompt engineering or API integrations.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM post-training, RL (RLHF, PPO, DPO, GRPO), preference optimization, reward modeling, or AI infrastructure.
  • Deep understanding of transformer-based LLMs, inference, fine-tuning, retrieval, evaluation, and agent architectures.

Technologies

Python · C++ · Rust · CUDA · HIP · PyTorch · Hugging Face · JAX · TensorFlow · Ray · vLLM · RLHF

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

for enterprise customers. This is not a traditional Solutions Engineer or prompt engineering role. You'll combine deep software engineering, applied AI research, and customer engagement to develop production-ready AI systems using modern LLMs, reinforcement learning, agentic workflows, and post-training techniques. THE PERSON: You'll work directly with customers, researchers, and product teams to transform ambiguous engineering problems into scalable AI solutions. From rapid prototyping to production deployment, you'll help shape both customer success and the evolution of our AI platform. What Makes This Role Unique Build AI systems that solve real-world engineering problems—not proof-of-concepts. Work across applied AI research, software engineering, and customer deployment. Partner directly with enterprise engineering teams to define, build, and validate AI solutions.
More from the job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. THE ROLE: We're looking for a Forward Deployed Research Engineer to build, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge AI systems that solve complex engineering challenges for enterprise customers. This is not a traditional Solutions Engineer or prompt engineering role. You'll combine deep software engineering, applied AI research, and customer engagement to develop production-ready AI systems using modern LLMs, reinforcement learning, agentic workflows, and post-training techniques. THE PERSON: You'll work directly with customers, researchers, and product teams to transform ambiguous engineering problems into scalable AI solutions. From rapid prototyping to produ [... source excerpt omitted ...] tform. What Makes This Role Unique Build AI systems that solve real-world engineering problems—not proof-of-concepts. Work across applied AI research, software engineering, and customer deployment. Partner directly with enterprise engineering teams to define, build, and validate AI solutions. Influence future AI products by translating customer challenges into reusable platform capabilities. Own projects end-to-end—from technical discovery and experimentation through deployment and measurable impact. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Partner with customer engineering teams to understand workflows, technical challenges, and opportunities for AI-driven automation. Design, build, and d [... source excerpt omitted ...] gnose and optimize AI system performance across models, data, infrastructure, orchestration, and tooling. Collaborate with AI researchers to validate new models and techniques in production environments. Present technical solutions, architecture, and implementation strategies to engineering leaders, customers, and executive stakeholders. Transform recurring customer use cases into reusable AI infrastructure, frameworks, and platform capabilities. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Strong software engineering experience in Python and at least one systems language such as C++, Rust, C, TypeScript, CUDA, or HIP. Proven experience building production AI or machine learning systems beyond p

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