Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Director, AI Research - Strategic Partnerships

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $180K — $220K *
Santa Clara, CA 95051In-Person
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in AI/ML research with leadership roles
  • Expertise in reinforcement learning, large-scale model training, and GPU programming
  • Proven track record of impactful research and production-level models
  • Strong understanding of hardware-software integration for AI systems
  • Experience working with frontier AI labs or leading external research partnerships
  • Ability to lead high-performance research teams while remaining hands-on

Responsibilities

  • Define AI research strategy aligned with AMD's hardware and software priorities
  • Build and mentor a team of AI researchers and engineers; set standards for technical excellence
  • Serve as AMD's senior counterpart in AI research, leveraging credibility in reinforcement learning
  • Drive collaborative research in RL, GPU programming, and optimizing performance on AMD platforms
  • Translate model requirements into actionable input for AMD's hardware and software roadmaps
  • Establish collaborative architectures that respect intellectual property
  • Set measurable goals for research milestones and performance improvements
  • Communicate research agenda and implications to both technical and business stakeholders

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans
  • Retirement savings options with employer matching
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Employee wellness programs
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for a Director, AI Research-Strategic Partnerships to lead our research collaborations with frontier AI labs and strategic model-development partners. This is a senior leadership role for someone who can set technical direction at the intersection of reinforcement learning, frontier model training, and AMD silicon-and turn those partnerships into measurable advances for both our partners' models and AMD's hardware and software roadmap.

THE PERSON:

You will build and lead a team of AI researchers and research engineers, own the technical agenda across multiple lab partnerships, and serve as a credible scientific peer to the researchers we collaborate with. The ideal candidate is a recognized technical leader who has shipped real research, can still go deep on training pipelines and kernels when it matters, and knows how to translate frontier-lab needs into hardware and roadmap decisions. We are open to candidates who want to remain hands-on as player-coaches as well as those who lead primarily through their teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Define and own the AI research strategy for AMD's strategic lab partnerships, aligning joint technical roadmaps with AMD's hardware and software priorities
  • Build, lead, and mentor a high-caliber team of AI researchers and research engineers; set research direction, hiring bar, and standards for technical excellence
  • Serve as AMD's senior research counterpart to partner labs-earning credibility as a peer on reinforcement learning, model training, and large-scale systems
  • Drive joint research programs spanning RL training pipelines (e.g., async RL, importance sampling, reward modeling), GPU programming, kernel and PPA optimization, and frontier model performance on AMD platforms
  • Translate frontier-model requirements into concrete, prioritized input to AMD's hardware roadmap and software stack, partnering closely with silicon, architecture, and compiler teams
  • Establish IP-preserving collaboration architectures (e.g., confidential compute) that let AMD and partners co-develop while protecting each party's intellectual property
  • Set and track measurable goals for each partnership-model uplift, kernel and workload performance, and verifiable research milestones
  • Represent AMD's research agenda to executive leadership and to external partners; communicate results, trade-offs, and roadmap implications to both technical and business audiences
  • Stay at the frontier of AI research and translate emerging techniques into opportunities for AMD and its partners


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in AI/ML research, with a track record of impactful published work and/or research shipped into production or frontier models
  • Deep, current expertise in one or more of: reinforcement learning, large-scale model training, GPU programming, and AI systems/performance optimization
  • Experience leading research teams and setting technical direction across multiple concurrent programs
  • Experience working with or inside frontier AI labs, or leading external research partnerships, with the credibility to operate as a scientific peer
  • Strong understanding of the hardware-software stack underpinning large-model training and inference, and how architectural decisions affect model performance
  • Ability to remain hands-on with training pipelines, kernels, or research prototyping while leading a team
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence executives, partners, and engineers across organizational and company boundaries
  • Track record of attracting, hiring, and developing top AI research talent


ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
  • PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent research experience and demonstrated impact


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Learn more about Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
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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