THE ROLE:This highly technical role serves as a key technical engineer plus advisory level resource, responsible tools and support for them used for the execution of data center cluster projects at AMD CSP partners and enterprise commercial end-customers. The position provides a unique opportunity to leverage expertise in systems management automation, graphics, compute, storage, networking, data center technologies, virtualization, AI/Machine Learning, and program management to collaborate with the internal team customers utilizing AMD Instinct™ Accelerators to help build tool stacks and support them for the teams that are building out large scale clusters.
You must be a team player with a strong commitment to meeting deadlines and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.
THE PERSON:The ideal candidate possesses exceptional skills in AI GPU hardware, software, systems management, and networking, especially with high-speed data fabrics. Should be highly analytical, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and maintain a positive, results-driven attitude, as well as work closely with customers in an advisory role to provide guidance during large scale cluster bringup and validation.
The candidate should be a developer with expertise in data center systems engineering, or a platform engineer with experience in large scale system bringup. Some familiarity with GPUs and machine learning techniques in an AI setting is a plus. They must be self-motivated and capable of working effectively within a team environment, as well as communicating concisely at all levels within an organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- Develop a strong understanding of the tools needed to support other teams in ensuring an impactful and effective task completion as they bringup and validate clusters at CSPs and customer data centers.
- Provide technical guidance and support for tooling at an advisory level to our internal customers for server clusters, focused on large scale GPU deployments.
- Assist development teams in identifying and resolving hardware/software technical issues throughout the cluster lifecycle, from initial bring-up to entering service for running workloads.
- Provide technical guidance to internal teams based on customer feedback from the deployment teams.
- Resolve technical issues for customers utilizing AMD Instinct™ server products in clusters.
- Mentor junior members of the technical staff.
- Follow procedures to communicate, report, and escalate incidents to AMD management.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:- Developer focused engineer with exposure to working with data center deployment engineers, along with supporting the teams doing hands-on management roles during cluster system bringup.
- Data center customer support tool skills using automation tools and frameworks such as Ansible, bash, Python and others.
- Experience with the tools used in bringup of data center servers and racks, server architecture and functionality, including remote management via BMC, network topologies, and graphics software/hardware subsystems.
- Linux installation, setup, usage, tuning, and debugging.
- Virtual environments (e.g., VMWare, Citrix, KVM, Microsoft) and virtual machine setup/management.
- Familiarity with data center GPU software stacks such as AMD ROCm™ or Nvidia CUDA.
- Familiarity with distributed network libraries (e.g., NCCL/RCCL, MPI) with GPU accelerators in distributed memory systems and high-speed network protocols/topologies.
- Strong skill in high-performance fabrics for HPC and AI, such as RDMA/RoCE and InfiniBand.
- Some familiarity with AI and machine learning workloads, frameworks, and models.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analysis skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for conveying technical information.
- Self-starter with attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
- May require up to 20% travel
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:- Bachelor's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering, Master's preferred
LOCATION: Austin, TX
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