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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
500 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$172,000–$258,000
across 500 roles with salary data.
The Software Development Engineer - AI Workload Optimization joins the AI Software group as a Fellow. This technical leadership role involves defining the end-to-end software optimization strategy to achieve industry-leading performance for top-tier customers. The successful candidate will lead the profiling, analysis, and tuning of large-scale models including LLMs, Diffusion, Multimodal, and MoE models. Key responsibilities include hardware-software co-design, driving ecosystem innovation, and partnering with hyperscalers to solve critical performance needs. Required expertise includes the ROCm software stack, PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, and SGLang. The role requires mastery of performance profiling tools like TorchProfiler, ROCm Profiler, and Nsight, alongside deep knowledge of Transformer architectures, quantization, speculative decoding, and FlashAttention to optimize distributed inference and training across multi-node environments.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $169050 from 134 postings across 7 companies.