Principal HPC Engineer-GPU - NA

Company: AMD
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

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At AMD, we push the boundaries of what is possible. We believe in changing the world for the better by driving innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies - building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the data center.

Developing great technology takes more than talent: it takes amazing people who understand collaboration, respect, and who will go the "extra mile" to achieve unthinkable results. It takes people who have the passion and desire to disrupt the status quo, push boundaries, deliver innovation, and change the world. If you have this type of passion, we invite you to take a look at the opportunities available to come join our team.

Principal HPC Engineer-GPU - NA

The Role

We are looking for an established Principal Engineer to join our growing HPC Centre of Excellence (HPC COE), to lead and collaborate with our Business Unit on the technical engagement of the large GPU-based clusters in North America. In addition to being customer and partner-facing this is a 'hands-on' role working both independently and with other AMD engineers to tackle technical HPC performance issues, collaborating with our customer-facing Field Application Engineering 'FAE' and Sales colleagues, our GPU Business Unit, and other key engineering groups (Architecture, Software, Platform). Following AMD successes with Frontier and El Capitan you will play a major role in growing the success and market penetration of the AMD GPU as it applies to HPC and therefore have a high degree of visibility within the company.

In addition to individual contributors, we are also keen to hear from engineers who in addition to the above knowledge and ability may also have some experience in formally managing technical teams. It is vital however that you have maintained a strong 'hands-on' ability at every point to lead any opportunity and with a skillset that matches an individual contributor. With this in mind, there is an opportunity for the individual to step up and lead the GPU team within the Centre of Excellence.

The Person

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• Clear and unambiguous track record of technical leadership on the largest HPC opportunities on the global stage
• Ability to clearly demonstrate application expertise in GPUs for HPC
• Strong technical ownership and ability to lead technical relationships with both customers and HPC partners
• Skilled in independently prioritizing opportunities to deliver results on time
• Proven success establishing relationships both internally and across a network of customers and partners
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Open to travel both domestic and international, approximately 20-25%.
• Fluent in English and already has the right to remain in the USA
  Key Responsibilities
  
  • Lead technical engagement on behalf of the Centre of Excellence. Through a combination of your own technical ability and your networking skills (both within AMD and with partners) you bring together the resources needed for success
  • Proof of Concepts and demonstration of AMD Instinct Mi-architecture covering both Software Development Environment and hardware. Some code/kernel porting during POC
  • Active engagement with Engineering, Architecture, Software, and Product Development teams providing feedback and leadership from the field on future direction
  • Provide support to our Field Application Engineers and Sales teams during the sales cycle where the customer may require a deeper level of expertise. Act as mentor and coach to frontline Field Application Engineer on how to best manage technical engagements
  • Technically owning and resolving customer and partner issues. Submitting JIRA tickets and driving resolution
  • Document and publish performance results and procedures, automating repeatable procedures
    Preferred Experience
    
    • Proven CUDA and/or OpenACC experience developing HPC codes on GPUs, profiling and inspecting code for greater optimisation
    • Candidate has already won a number of large deals
    • Expertise in compiling large codes from source, with appropriately linked math libraries and flag optimisation
    • Proven understanding of baseline testing of popular synthetic and real world codes (e.g. HPL, GROMACS)
    • Understanding system level hardware and its configuration/impact on performance
    • Customer-facing experience. Able to write technical documents and communicate at an appropriate level depending on the audience
    • Some Linux administration; understanding setup for HPC middleware.
      Nice To Haves
      
      • Proven HPC application experience
      • Experience leading a technical team in addition to being 'hands-on'
      • Experience working on very large codes such as weather/climate and associated tuning for greater scalability
      • Any experience understanding/inspecting/writing assembly
      • Understanding of memory and cache hierarchy and methods to query performance/latency at each level
      • Understanding HPC dataflow down to the register-level
      • Security clearance for the national labs in the USA
        Academic Credentials
        
        • Bachelors' Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics) preferred
          LOCATION:
          
          North America, with preference for East Coast/Central Time zone for easier overlap with EMEA
          
          Requisition Numbe r: 176156
          
          Country: United States State: Virginia City: Alexandria
          
          Job Function: Field Application Engineering/ Field Sup
          
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