Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

DevOps / GPU Stack Build Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $130K — $180K *
San Jose, CA 95123In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience focused on build systems
  • Hands-on coding ability required
  • Expert-level knowledge of build tools (cmake, ninja, Bazel, etc.)
  • Experience with packaging and toolchain configuration
  • Proven track record of modernizing build systems for 100+ developers
  • Strong understanding of version control and dependency management at scale

Responsibilities

  • Make foundational build system architecture decisions for a greenfield project
  • Lead firmware recipe migration using AI-assisted workflows
  • Build repo automation for managing multiple component repos
  • Unblock new team members by creating documented, replicable dev environments

Benefits

  • Opportunity to enhance skills in AI-assisted engineering
  • Influence foundational architectural decisions
  • Direct impact on customer-facing build processes
  • Collaboration with teams on next-generation GPU hardware
  • Alignment with open-source development principles
Full Job Description
AMD's AI software stack is moving fast - and keeping pace means shipping complete, validated GPU stack releases to customers as quickly as the software can evolve. Today, that release velocity is limited by the coordination overhead between the layers of the stack: firmware, kernel driver, and ROCm each have their own build systems, their own workflows, and no shared baseline. Every release requires manual effort to assemble and validate a coherent recipe across all three.

We're building the infrastructure to change that - a unified build platform that treats firmware, kernel, and ROCm as a single deliverable, built from source, validated together, and releasable on demand. The result: customers get supported, compatible GPU stack recipes faster, and AMD can respond to customer needs without the drag of disconnected build and release processes.

This is a greenfield architecture role. You'll be making foundational decisions during the proof-of-concept phase, with 1,000+ developers and 65+ firmware components as the eventual scope. If you want to design a build system from scratch - and you reach for an AI coding agent before a bash script - this role was written for you.

What You'll Do
  • Make foundational build system architecture decisions - the super-build is greenfield. You'll determine how 65+ firmware components, the kernel driver, and ROCm are structured, how dependencies are expressed and resolved, and how the system scales as more components onboard. These decisions matter and they're yours to make.
  • Lead firmware recipe migration using AI-assisted workflows - the existing firmware builds are scattered across multiple CI systems with no single source of truth. You'll reverse-engineer what exists, understand the dependencies, and convert those recipes into the unified build - using agentic AI coding tools to move at a pace that would otherwise take years. Strong opinions about package management and host dependency handling are a real advantage here.
  • Build repo automation that keeps the super-repo sane - with 65+ component repos feeding into a unified system, manual dependency updates don't scale. You'll map the full repo landscape, design the submodule/manifest architecture, and build the automation that keeps versions in sync without constant human intervention.
  • Unblock new team members from day one - the tiger team is actively growing and new engineers are blocked until they have a working dev environment. You'll stand up replicable, documented machine setups that solve the network access, firewall, and cloud quota constraints so onboarding stops being a bottleneck.

What We're Looking For

Required:
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep focus on build systems
  • Strong hands-on coding ability - this is an IC lead role, not a managing-from-above role
  • Expert-level knowledge of build tools (cmake, ninja, Bazel, or equivalent) and build system design at scale
  • Experience with packaging, host dependency management, and toolchain configuration
  • Track record of modernizing or architecting a build system used by 100+ developers
  • Strong understanding of version control and dependency management at scale (git submodules, manifest-driven workflows, etc.)

Strong Plus:
  • Fluency with agentic AI workflows (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, etc.) as a force multiplier for engineering throughput
  • Experience with firmware or kernel build systems (embedded firmware, Linux kernel, or similar)
  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipeline design
  • Experience building in or migrating to cloud-hosted runner environments (AWS)

Why This Role
  • Sharpen your agentic AI engineering skills - the scope of this work (65+ firmware components, greenfield architecture, 1,000+ eventual users) means you'll be using AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow every day, not occasionally. Reverse-engineering build recipes, generating dependency graphs, scaffolding build configurations - this is exactly the kind of high-volume, pattern-rich work where agentic AI makes the difference between a months-long slog and a fast, iterative build. You'll leave with a depth of experience in AI-assisted engineering that's hard to get anywhere else.
  • Greenfield scope - you're making foundational architectural decisions during the PoC phase, not inheriting and patching someone else's system
  • Customer-facing impact - the build platform you design directly determines how quickly AMD can ship complete, validated GPU stack releases
  • Latest hardware - you'll work alongside the teams building AMD's next-generation GPU stack
  • Open-source aligned - this work follows the same shift-left, trunk-health principles driving AMD's ROCm open-source direction


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Size
15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
NASDAQ
AMD
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