Director, AI/ML Forward Deployment Engineering

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The Role:

As AMD grows, growing our leadership in systems engineering expertise is essential for all the new products in the AMD pipeline. Want to translate business goals into cutting-edge product and system features that meet those requirements? Make a significant impact in AMD's Client business and the direction of the PC industry through this new, high-visibility role!

The leader of the Advanced Forward Deployment and System Engineering team at AMD's Datacenter GPU (DC GPU) advises our strategy, partnerships, engineering development teams, and global system development, system solutions, and customer engineering teams to deliver new and innovative system features to AMD product and systems. Lead forward looking, leadership capabilities into our products, software, firmware, ecosystem, and ultimately, shipping customer desktop, laptop, and workstation systems. Drive cohesive strategy and plans, hire teams, and deliver innovation in the area of computer vision-based capabilities and user features.

The Person:

Leading this effort will require an unusual mix of technical breadth and depth, problem solving, management skills, and soft skills. It's not for the overly introverted. Effective with communication and building respect while communicating status to executive level audience.

An ambitious engineering leader with a proven track record in visualization technologies appreciate Blend technical knowledge of PC system operation and optimized engineering processes with cross-company teamwork, influence, mentorship and development of technical leaders. Bring sophisticated multi-functional alignment and team skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multi-functional formation and alignment of computer vision-based PC user experience innovations
• Lead definition and alignment of HW/SW/FW requirements to implement those improvements
• Assess the current state of AMD's HW, FW, SW and ecosystem capabilities and define the generational improvements while engaging with existing cross-company efforts to build solution components
• Grow advanced system development teams to implement and augment the existing IP/SOC/SW engineering teams and program and product management teams - implement, optimize, tune, and test at the system level
• Define and enter into ecosystem partnership for solution components
• Ensure system assessments and customer platform attainment to deliver industry best products
• Develop positive relationships with key people across the organization and development partners
• Work with architects to set design and development plan and objectives (IP, SoC, Power, Firmware, System, Network, Compute, Storage and Workloads)

Preferred Experience:

• Depth and expertise in image sensors, image processing, and image analysis and inference (AI/ML) as well as in GPU user experience with respect to image processing and analysis as well as image consumption
• Experience in Compute, Network, Storage, architecture in building large AI/ML cluster and experience with tuning multi node RCCL, inference/training workloads.
• Speak firmware and software, not just hardware

Academic Credentials:

• Bachelor's Degree (BS) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other relevant field
• Master's Degree (MS) preferred

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