Senior Software Engineer, AI Triton Kernels
Amd
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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $154,900–$215,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $205k versus about $185k for comparable roles.
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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
Amd currently has 367 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,400–$249,600 across 367 roles with salary data.
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Sr. Software Engineer - AI Triton Communication will join the team to advance the Triton compiler and runtime stack for AMD CDNA and next-generation GPU architectures. The role focuses on building native distributed execution and communication capabilities, including collective operations, remote memory access, and synchronization primitives to support large-scale training and inference. You will develop infrastructure to optimize inter-GPU data movement, computation overlap, and hardware utilization while collaborating with architecture and software teams. Key technical requirements include expertise in GPU architecture, compiler technologies, and distributed systems. Candidates should possess skills in Triton, ROCm, HIP, CUDA, MLIR, or LLVM. Experience with communication libraries like RCCL, NCCL, NVSHMEM, rocSHMEM, or MPI is preferred. The work addresses the critical challenge of scaling AI workloads across multiple GPUs by improving performance and scalability within the Triton ecosystem for high-performance computing.
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