AI Performance Engineer (robotics ) Job Listing at AMD in HKI, Uusimaa (Job ID 66946-en-us)

Description

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THE ROLE

• AI Performance Engineers focus on optimizing machine learning models, profiling, bottleneck analysis, and optimal mapping to GPUs. 

• As an AI Performance Engineer, you will analyze and explore recent ML models, understand their compute and memory requirements, and optimize them on various compute hardware for both inference and training.  

• In addition, you will profile and analyze various workloads on current hardware and come up with new ways to improve their performance. 

Collaboration with others  

• The position is part of the robotics workstream at AMD Silo AI's R&D and Models unit. 

• Collaborate with robotics AI developers and domain experts to communicate and understand the requirements.  

• Work with multiple teams located in Finland locally and internationally in the organization  

• Communicate with clients to explain performance bottlenecks and resolutions 

Main goals for first 6 months  

• Benchmark, analyze, and optimize performance of key machine learning applications, on single and multi-GPU systems 

• Design, implement, and test GPU kernels and algorithms for tensor operations like matrix multiplication and convolutions used in a variety of high-performance machine learning libraries and frameworks 

• Deliver high-quality code and documentation following best practices for open-source software development 

THE PERSON

• The ideal candidate will have strong experience with software optimization, GPU programming, hardware architecture, and simulation engines. Passionate of getting the best performance out of various hardware's under different tradeoffs. 

• If you are passionate about performance optimization, getting the best out of hardware, and shaping the future AI performance, then this role is for you. 

Required Skills and Qualifications  

• Understanding of GPU architectures and low-level optimization techniques, memory hierarchy, instruction scheduling, and performance tradeoffs 

• GPU software development using HIP, CUDA, or OpenCL 

• In-depth knowledge of best practices in software development, including testing, profiling, debugging, documentation, version control, issue tracking, and planning 

• Experience with Python programming 

• Experience in PyTorch, JAX, Triton, torchtune 

• Experience in high-performance computing (HPC) 

• Strong written and spoken English language skills (our company language) 

• Experience with Docker, Containers, Kubernetes components & subsystems 

• BSc, MSc, PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field 

• Good to have but not required experience with C++. 

• Good to have experience with Megatron-LM, Mosaic-ML llm-foundry 

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