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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
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Software Development Engineer — GPU Fleet Management & AI Infrastructure will join a team at the intersection of systems software, cloud infrastructure, and accelerated computing to build Fleet Manager. This role involves developing a secure control plane for large-scale AMD GPU infrastructure, focusing on scheduling, workload orchestration, hardware health management, and inference capabilities. You will design distributed control-plane services, command-line tools, and multi-tenant infrastructure while integrating with Kubernetes, Kueue, JobSet, and ROCm. The position requires expertise in Rust, C++, or Go to build reliable systems involving gRPC, REST, and PostgreSQL. Key responsibilities include managing GPU training workloads, implementing admission control, and ensuring security through authentication and isolation. You will solve complex infrastructure problems related to distributed system failure modes, hardware telemetry, and the deployment of large-scale AI models across diverse execution environments like Slurm or custom container runtimes.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in California?
Median $217725 from 74 postings across 8 companies.
Improve the performance of AI inference services through routing, streaming, load shedding, and usage metering.
What we're looking for
Experience in systems software development using Rust, C++, Go, or comparable languages (preferred).
Production experience with the Rust programming language is highly desirable (preferred).
Experience designing and operating distributed systems, control planes, schedulers, or cloud infrastructure (preferred).
Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous programming, state machines, and failure recovery (preferred).
Experience building reliable services using REST, streaming, WebSocket, or gRPC APIs (preferred).
Experience with Kubernetes internals, controllers, operators, scheduling, resource management, or custom resources (preferred).
Experience with PostgreSQL-backed services, schema evolution, transactions, leader election, and optimistic concurrency (preferred).
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (preferred).