Applied Research Scientist, AI Agents & Models

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.

AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

The Role

The AI Models team is looking for exceptional machine learning scientists and engineers to explore and innovate on training and inference techniques for large language models (LLMs), large multimodal models (LMMs), image/video generation and other foundation models as well as self-evolving agents on top of these. You will be part of a world-class research and development team focussing on efficient and scalable pre-training, instruction tuning, alignment and optimization. As an early member of the team, you can help us shape the direction and strategy to fulfill this important charter.

The Person

This role is for you if you are passionate about reading through the latest literature, coming up with novel ideas, and implementing those through high quality code to push the boundaries on scale and performance. The ideal candidate will have both theoretical expertise and hands-on experience with developing and optimizing LLMs, LMMs, and/or diffusion models.

Key Responsibilities

• Accelerate the training and inference speed of AI models and applications through various efficiency improvement techniques.
• Build AI agents to automatically write and evaluate efficient kernels and workload optimization code
• Drive continuous improvement of infrastructure and development ecosystem
• Publish your research at top-tier conferences, workshops and/or through technical blogs.
• Engage with academia and open-source ML communities.
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Strong development and debugging skills in Python.
• Experience in deep learning frameworks (like PyTorch or TensorFlow), distributed training tools as well as various agentic AI frameworks
• Solid understanding of various types of architectures including, but not limited to, transformers, state space, diffusion, flow models, etc.
• Experience in writing & optimizing GPU kernels using HIP, CUDA, Triton, etc.
• Prior experience in building self-evolving AI agents for various tasks like code generation, discovery, etc.
• Knowledge of latest research in the field of advanced AI agents
• familiar with techniques to do hardware-efficient training and inference of generative AI models and also familiarity with existing frameworks (e.g. vllm, sglang, etc.)
• expertise in model architecture (beyond just transformers only models) and latest research in this field
• having relevant open-source contributions
• Strong publication record in top-tier conferences, workshops or journals.
• Solid communication and problem-solving skills.
• Passionate about learning new stuffs in this domain as well as innovating on top of it
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in machine learning, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field is expected. Exceptional Bachelor’s degree candidates with years of relevant research experience may also be considered.
  
  
  

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.