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Overview:
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.
At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.
AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high\-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next\-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go\-to\-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.
Responsibilities:
### Role Overview
The Senior Manager, AI Power \& Performance (AI PnP) will lead a team responsible for delivering industry\-leading AI performance, power efficiency, benchmarking, characterization, and optimization across AMD's Embedded and Edge AI platforms. This leader will partner closely with architecture, software, silicon, product management, marketing, and customer\-facing teams to ensure AMD solutions achieve competitive leadership in AI workloads spanning Robotics, Physical AI, Automotive, Industrial, and Edge Computing.### Why Join Physical AI Organization?
Join a fast\-growing organization shaping AMD's vision for Physical AI, Robotics, Automotive, Industrial, and Edge AI solutions. This role offers the opportunity to influence next\-generation AI platforms, build world\-class engineering teams, and drive technology that powers intelligent systems across a wide range of industries.### Success Metrics
- Performance\-per\-watt leadership against competitive solutions.
- AI workload enablement and optimization coverage across strategic platforms.
- Customer adoption and design\-win support effectiveness.
- Engineering productivity improvements through automation and tooling.
- Delivery of trusted, reproducible, customer\-ready performance data.
- Successful execution of roadmap commitments and organizational growth.
### Key Responsibilities
#### Technical Leadership
- Define and execute AI power and performance strategy across AMD CPU, GPU, NPU, and heterogeneous computing platforms.
- Establish benchmarking methodologies, performance KPIs, competitive analysis frameworks, and workload characterization processes.
- Drive performance optimization across AI models, runtimes, kernels, frameworks, and system software stacks.
- Identify bottlenecks and influence hardware, firmware, runtime, and software roadmap decisions through data\-driven analysis.
#### Product and Solution Enablement
- Lead performance readiness for AI solutions across Robotics, Physical AI, Automotive, Industrial, and Edge AI markets.
- Develop customer\-ready performance collateral, benchmarking reports, tuning recommendations, and competitive positioning data.
- Partner with software engineering teams to validate AI models, inference pipelines, SDKs, frameworks, and application workloads.
- Ensure performance scalability, efficiency, reliability, and production readiness across deployed solutions.
#### Team Leadership
- Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high\-performing global engineering organization consisting of AI performance, benchmarking, and automation engineers.
- Establish clear goals, execution plans, staffing strategies, and career development programs.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, technical excellence, and customer obsession.
#### Customer and Cross\-Functional Engagement
- Support strategic customer engagements, design\-win efforts, technical escalations, and performance\-related discussions.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, Marketing, and Field Engineering teams to define and execute winning AI platform strategies.
- Represent AMD performance leadership in executive reviews, customer meetings, and industry engagements.
#### Automation and Infrastructure
- Drive development of scalable benchmarking, automation, telemetry, profiling, and analytics infrastructure.
- Establish continuous performance validation frameworks and dashboards for workload tracking and regression analysis.
- Improve engineering efficiency through CI/CD integration and automated performance qualification systems.
### Required Qualifications
- Proven experience in software engineering, system performance, Edge physical AI, embedded platforms, or related domains.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical programs.
- Proven experience in Power and Power PnP activities Pre\-Silicon and Post\-Silicon \& Correlation
- Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks, inference runtimes, and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience with heterogeneous computing architectures involving CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and accelerators.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
### Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AMD AI technologies including ROCm, Ryzen AI, ONNX Runtime, MIGraphX, or other AI software stacks.
- Experience in Robotics, Physical AI, Automotive, Industrial, or Edge AI markets.
- Familiarity with generative AI, multimodal AI, computer vision, and robotics workloads.
- Knowledge of AI benchmarking, profiling tools, performance analysis, and power optimization techniques.
- Experience working with geographically distributed engineering organizations.
Academic Credentials
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
Location: Austin, TX
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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Qualifications:
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Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 4,317 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At AMD, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills in Demand for This Role
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $214,900 based on 6,420 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $227,400.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($287,500) and Research Engineer ($272,100). By seniority level: Entry: $110,000; Mid: $194,400; Senior: $227,400; Director: $274,554; VP: $241,000.
AMD AI Hiring
AMD has 21 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Product Manager, AI Software Engineer. Positions span San Diego, CA, US, Austin, TX, US, San Jose, CA, US.
Location Context
AI roles in Austin pay a median of $214,343 across 143 tracked positions.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 4,317 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 138 entry-level, 2,071 mid-level, 1,655 senior, and 453 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (635 positions). The remaining 3,657 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($287,500 median, 34 roles); Research Engineer ($272,100 median, 227 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($244,000 median, 23 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 4,317 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (3,004), Data Scientist (345), AI Software Engineer (309). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (138) are outnumbered by mid-level (2,071) and senior (1,655) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 453 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (635 positions), with 3,657 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $215,000. Top-quartile roles start at $266,300, and the 90th percentile reaches $320,790. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $287,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (2,249 postings), Aws (1,224 postings), Azure (938 postings), Rag (915 postings), Gcp (660 postings), Pytorch (640 postings), Prompt Engineering (624 postings), Kubernetes (559 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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