Senior Field Application Engineer, AI

Amd

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Work type
Remote
Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$194,560–$291,840 / yr
Posted
96 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Jul 23, 2027

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Above market

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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 496 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Field Application Engineer, AI

JOB TITLE: Senior Field Application Engineer – AI The Senior Field Application Engineer – AI joins the AI and HPC Center of Excellence to support customers and partners with RFP-driven requests. This hands-on technical role involves enabling AI workloads on AMD Instinct datacenter GPUs, Pensando Pollara AI NICs, and EPYC CPUs. You will execute and tune training and inference workloads, conduct performance investigations, and create technical documentation like whitepapers and tuning guides. Key responsibilities include building technical relationships, running performance tests using Pytorch, Tensorflow, and JAX, and utilizing MLperf and Hugging Face. You must understand how software stacks, compilers, and libraries affect performance. Required skills include MLOps familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, Linux administration, and experience with Python, C/C++, or CUDA to solve complex hardware and software performance challenges.

What you'll do

  • Support customers and partners in executing AI workloads on AMD Instinct GPUs, Pensando NICs, and EPYC CPUs.
  • Execute and tune popular and customer-specific AI training and inference workloads using frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
  • Conduct engineering investigations to analyze AI performance, software impacts, and competitive positioning on AMD hardware.
  • Create technical documentation including whitepapers, tuning guides, and training collateral for internal and external use.
  • Build technical relationships with customer engineers and architects through Proof of Concepts (POCs) and presentations.
  • Provide feedback to internal engineering and product teams to identify missing functionality and resolve technical issues.
  • Assist the bid desk in creating Total Cost of Ownership models for pricing and proposals.
  • Resolve customer and partner technical issues by submitting and driving JIRA tickets to resolution.

What we're looking for

  • Track record of currently working in a role undertaking AI inference or training as a key part of your function.
  • Demonstrable hands-on expertise working with popular AI frameworks.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English to collaborate with management and engineering teams.
  • Ability to independently prioritize opportunities and deliver results on time.
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10-20% over a year.
  • Bachelors' Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics) (preferred).
  • Demonstrated experience with training and inference workloads on GPUs (preferred).
  • Familiarity with MLOps (KVM, Kubernetes, Openstack, Openshift) and Linux administration (preferred).

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