This role pays more than
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$308k
versus about
$257k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Amd
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors
Amd currently has
367 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$166,400–$249,600
across 367 roles with salary data.
As Director, AI Research, you will lead a high-caliber team of researchers and engineers to establish a research agenda at the intersection of frontier AI and silicon. You will be responsible for defining technical direction across multiple workstreams, including reinforcement learning, model training and optimization, and AI-for-systems. Your daily work involves building and mentoring teams, prioritizing research opportunities, and ensuring that results translate into measurable impacts on hardware roadmaps and software performance. You will collaborate with internal silicon, architecture, and compiler teams while managing external partnerships to ground research in real deployment problems. The role requires expertise in the hardware-software stack for large-model training and inference. You must be able to manage infrastructure and verification practices while communicating technical results to both executive leadership and external partners to advance AMD's product capabilities.
Reinforcement Learning
Large-scale Model Training
GPU Programming
PPA Optimization
AI Systems
Confidential Compute
Compiler
Machine Learning
Training Pipelines
Python
Large Language Models
NLP
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Deep Learning
Agentic AI
Unstructured Data
Document Parsing
Web Extraction
Data Engineering
Quantitative Research
Model Development
Rapid Prototyping