Director / Fellow – Developer Productivity & Platform, ROCm
AI summary of the role
Founding horizontal technical lead for developer productivity across AMD's 1,200-person ROCm engineering organization.
What you’ll do
- Own developer productivity horizontally across the 1,200-person ROCm organization, building an empirical view of time loss through interviews, instrumentation, and build/CI data analysis.
- Identify and eliminate highest-leverage friction points across infrastructure, workflow, and development stack improvements.
- Drive consolidation of fragmented team-built tooling into shared, maintained infrastructure.
- Define and instrument developer productivity metrics (build time, time-to-first-green, environment setup) and publish a quarterly dashboard for leadership.
What you’ll bring
- Significant software engineering depth in developer tooling, platform engineering, build systems, or DevOps.
- Strong hands-on coding ability — this is an IC role.
- Track record of improving developer experience at scale across organizations of 100+ engineers with measurable outcomes.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD systems, build infrastructure, and developer workflow tooling.
Technologies
ROCm · HIP · CUDA · sccache · Dev Containers · CI/CD · build systems · GPU · kernel · firmware · compiler · ML frameworks
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
ecosystem. Engineering time is the constraint. This role directly attacks that constraint. Breadth unusual for an IC — firmware, kernel, build, runtime, compiler, ML frameworks — this role touches all of it. If you want depth in one area, this isn't it. If you want horizontal breadth with genuine technical impact across a large, complex organization, it's a rare fit. THE PERSON: We're looking for a senior individual contributor to serve as the horizontal technical lead for developer productivity across the entire ROCm development organization. You'll sit in the Developer Organization (DevOps and QA), reporting directly to the head of that organization, but your mandate spans the full 1,200-person engineering body — surfacing the highest-friction points in the developer experience, and eliminating them: through infrastructure improvements, workflow redesign, or direct fixes to the
More from the job description
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career. THE ROLE: ROCm is a 1,200-person engineering organization. The people in it are productive individually. The organization as a whole is not. Developers across firmware, kernel, build, and software teams encounter the same friction points — slow toolchains, fragmented workflows, bespoke local infrastructure assembled team-by-team to fill gaps nobody formally owns — and solve them independently, each time, in different ways. No one has owned this problem horizontally. The problem is real, the scope is rare — a horizontal mandate across a 1,200-person engineering organization, with a clear problem and leadership support to address it. Developer experience roles at this scope don't come up often. Build a function from scratch — you'll establish what developer productivity means at AMD, prove the model, and scale it. Budget exists to grow t [... source excerpt omitted ...] HE PERSON: We're looking for a senior individual contributor to serve as the horizontal technical lead for developer productivity across the entire ROCm development organization. You'll sit in the Developer Organization (DevOps and QA), reporting directly to the head of that organization, but your mandate spans the full 1,200-person engineering body — surfacing the highest-friction points in the developer experience, and eliminating them: through infrastructure improvements, workflow redesign, or direct fixes to the development stack itself. The goal is measurable, durable improvement in engineering velocity across the company — not for one team, for all of them. This is a so [... source excerpt omitted ...] have budget to hire supporting engineers beneath you as the work matures, but the first job is to establish what this function owns, what it can change, and what it's worth. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Own the developer productivity problem horizontally across ROCm — this is not a team-scoped role. You'll build a continuous, empirical view of where developers across the organization lose time: through direct interviews, instrumentation, friction logging, and analysis of build and CI data. This picture drives your roadmap. Identify and eliminate the highest-leverage friction points — once you can see where the time goes, you prioritize ruthlessly. Some fixes are infrastructure (build cac
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