Director Fellow Developer Productivity & Platform

Amd

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$246,400–$369,600 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 4, 2027

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Above market

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This role $308k
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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

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TL;DR · Director Fellow Developer Productivity & Platform

Director / Fellow – Developer Productivity & Platform, ROCm serves as a horizontal technical lead within the Developer Organization to improve engineering velocity across a 1,200-person organization. This individual contributor role focuses on identifying and eliminating developer friction by auditing build systems, infrastructure, and workflows for firmware, kernel, runtime, compiler, and ML framework teams. The successful candidate will build a new function from scratch, establishing metrics for build times, environment setup, and CI reproduction while consolidating fragmented tools into shared, maintained solutions. Key technical areas include CI/CD systems, distributed build caching, developer environment standardization, and GPU compute ecosystems like HIP and CUDA. The role requires deep expertise in platform engineering and software development to address the specific challenges of developing within complex hardware-adjacent stacks, ultimately improving the overall productivity of the ROCm open-source ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Conduct a systematic audit of developer friction points across the 1,200-person ROCm engineering organization.
  • Identify and eliminate high-leverage bottlenecks in infrastructure, workflows, and the development stack.
  • Consolidate fragmented, team-specific tools into shared, maintained, and canonical tooling.
  • Define and instrument key metrics to measure and report developer productivity to leadership.
  • Translate documented developer pain points into actionable items on the DevOps roadmap.
  • Drive the adoption of standardized, reproducible developer environments to accelerate onboarding.
  • Implement technical improvements for build caching, incremental builds, and CI failure reproduction.
  • Build and eventually lead a dedicated team to scale the developer productivity function.

What we're looking for

  • Must have significant software engineering experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, build systems, or DevOps.
  • Must possess strong hands-on coding ability to contribute directly to the codebase as an individual contributor.
  • Must have a proven track record of improving developer experience at scale for organizations of 100+ engineers.
  • Must demonstrate the ability to influence and drive adoption across autonomous teams without formal organizational authority.
  • Must have deep technical knowledge of CI/CD systems, build infrastructure, and developer workflow tooling.
  • Experience in GPU or systems software environments including kernel, firmware, runtime, or compilers is a significant advantage.
  • Familiarity with the ROCm stack or adjacent GPU compute ecosystems like HIP, CUDA, and ML frameworks is preferred.
  • A Master’s degree or PhD in a related discipline is preferred.

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