Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Applied Research Scientist

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in training large language/multimodal models and image/video generation models.
  • Hands-on expertise with hyper-parameter tuning techniques and data preprocessing methods.
  • Proficient in Python development and debugging.
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
  • Strong understanding of transformer architectures and latest training approaches.

Responsibilities

  • Train and finetune large language models (LLMs) and large multimodal models (LMMs).
  • Enhance the performance of state-of-the-art LLMs, LMMs, and image/video generation models.
  • Accelerate training and inference speed of complex models.
  • Research and develop novel machine learning techniques and model architectures.
  • Influence the strategic direction of the AMD AI platform.
  • Publish research findings in top-tier academic venues.
  • Collaborate with academic and open-source ML communities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive AMD benefits package.
  • Hybrid work environment, allowing for flexibility in work location.
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

We are looking for an Applied Research Scientist experienced with training large language models, large multimodal models, and image/video generation models. In this role, you will explore novel LLM/LMM and image/video generation architectures and large-scale training techniques to advance the state-of-the-arts. You will be part of a world-class research team working on pre-training, fine-tuning, and aligning large language models, large multimodal models, and image/video generation models, in addition to keeping up-to-date to the latest progress and trends in LLM/LMM, image/video generation, and other foundation models.

THE PERSON:

Do you like to design and implement novel research ideas, improve the quality of the large language/multimodal models, accelerate the training and inference speed of LLMs, LMMs, and image/video generation models, and influence future hardware and software direction? If so, this role is for you. The ideal candidate will have expertise and hands-on experience on training LLMs, LMMs, and/or diffusion models., familiar with hyper-parameter tuning techniques, data preprocessing, tokenization methods and latest training approaches for LLMs, LMMs, and diffusion models. A successful candidate needs to be knowledgeable with latest transformer architectures.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Train and finetune LLMs, LMMs, and image/video generation models.
  • Improve on the state-of-the-art LLMs, LMMs, and image/video generation models.
  • Accelerate the training and inference speed of LLMs, LMMs, and image/video generation models.
  • Research novel ML techniques and model architectures.
  • Influence the direction of AMD AI platform.
  • Publish your work at top-tier venues.
  • Engage with academia and open-source ML communities.


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience in developing and debugging in Python.
  • Experience in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow.
  • Experience with distributed training.
  • Expertise on LLM/LMM/Diffusion pretraining, finetuning, and/or RLHF.
  • Familiar with transformer architecture.
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Publication at top-tier venues is a huge plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
  • A PhD or master's degree or equivalent in machine learning, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field.

LOCATION:

San Jose, CA or Seattle, WA areas preferred (Hybrid).

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
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Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
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