Director Machine Learning Engineer Job Listing at AMD in San Jose, CA (Job ID 63591-en-us)

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Director Machine Learning Engineer

THE ROLE:

We are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join our Models and Applications team. If you are excited by the challenge of distributed training of large models on a large number of GPUs, and if you are passionate about improving training efficiency while innovating and generating new ideas, then this role is for you.  You will be part of a world class team focused on addressing the challenge of training generative AI.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate should have experience with distributed training pipelines, be knowledgeable in distributed training algorithms (Data Parallel, Tensor Parallel, Pipeline Parallel, ZeRO), and be familiar with training large models.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Train large models to convergence on AMD GPUs.
• Improve the end-to-end training pipeline performance.
• Optimize the distributed training pipeline and algorithm to scale out.
• Contribute your changes to open source.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest training algorithms.
• Influence the direction of AMD AI platform. 
• Collaborate across teams with various groups and stakeholders.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Experience with distributed training and distributed training frameworks, such as DeepSpeed.
• Experience with LLMs or computer vision, especially large models, is a plus.
• Excellent Python programming skills, including debugging, profiling, and performance analysis.
• Experience with ML pipelines.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• A Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.

LOCATION:

• San Jose, CA 

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