below marketmost similar roles pay hereabove market
This role pays more than
89%
of similar roles. Most pay
$179,813–$230,500
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$255k
versus about
$205k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
Listed pay typically runs
$172,000–$258,000
across 496 roles with salary data.
The Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - Collectives and Network optimization will join the team responsible for driving strategy, architecture, and optimization to achieve industry-leading AI pre-training and distributed inference performance on AMD GPUs. This senior level engineer will develop tools and infrastructure for performance estimation, modeling, and reporting while providing guidelines on network load-balancing, workload scheduling, and model sharding. The role involves performance tuning and profiling large-scale models for LLM, diffusion, and generative AI across single node and distributed environments. Key requirements include deep knowledge of network, NIC, and GPU hardware architecture, along with hands-on experience in AI frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, and SGLang. The position focuses on hardware-software co-design for scale-up and scale-out networks to optimize state-of-the-art models.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in California?
Median $197750 from 81 postings across 10 companies.
Java
Scala
Go
Python
Microservices
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
GitOps
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Architecture
Cloud-Native
Observability
Generative AI
High-Availability Systems