Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

System Design Engineer - AI Cluster Software Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience, particularly in web applications
  • Expertise with JavaScript, TypeScript, and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue
  • Skilled in backend development using modern server-side languages or frameworks
  • Experience in deploying applications on both cloud and on-premises infrastructure using Linux and containers
  • Proven track record with automated testing, code review, and deployment processes
  • Understanding of web application security, authentication, and secure secrets handling

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to translate requirements into design solutions
  • Develop and maintain tools for large-scale AI cluster design and deployment
  • Create interface code that integrates various third-party tools
  • Manage features from design through deployment and maintenance
  • Embrace agile practices by delivering work in increments and adapting to changes
  • Engage in code reviews and late-stage project retrospectives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive AMD benefits package
  • Support for hybrid work model
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Access to cutting-edge technology in AI/ML
  • Opportunities for professional growth within multi-disciplinary teams
Full Job Description

THE ROLE:  

This is a hands-on role for a full-stack developer to create and deliver a range of tools and applications focused on design and deployment of large-scale AI/ML clustered infrastructure. You will be working with the latest agentic tools and patterns to develop, deploy, and maintain these applications. You’ll join a growing team of multi-disciplined engineers that operates across industry verticals as subject matter experts in the AI stack and across the cluster.  

  

THE PERSON:  

  • Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants and LLM-powered developer tools: daily user of AI agents and tools
  • Five or more years of professional software development experience, including substantial experience building and supporting web applications
  • Proficiency in modern frontend development using JavaScript or TypeScript and a framework such as React, Angular, or Vue
  • Experience developing backend services and APIs using a modern server-side language or framework
  • Experience deploying and operating applications using Linux, containers, CI/CD, and cloud or on-premises infrastructure
  • Experience with automated testing, source control, code review, debugging, and production support
  • Working knowledge of web application security, authentication, authorization, and secure secrets handling

  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

  • Partner with engineering peers, domain experts in adjacent teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into flexible, future-proof design solutions
  • Hands on development, iteration, and maintenance of tools and applications that codify various aspects of large-scale AI cluster design stages and cluster deployment activities
  • Design and development of cohesive interface code between disparate third party tools
  • Own features from requirements and design through deployment and ongoing maintenance
  • Work in an iterative software environment, including planning and delivering work in small increments, collaborating with stakeholders, often in different areas of domain expertise (Agile development practices)
  • Participate in code reviews and retros; adapt to changing requirements and priorities

  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

  • Strong Linux fundamentals: Linux operating systems, networking, filesystems, containers, performance tooling (perf, flamegraphs, nvprof/rocprof, basic eBPF).
  • Clear communication: ability to turn complex systems into accessible, structured documentation with diagrams and reproducible steps
  • AMD ecosystem experience: ROCm, RCCL, Instinct GPUs, EPYC platforms, compiler/toolchain impacts, and performance tuning
  • Orchestration models: Slurm configuration patterns, Kubernetes for HPC/AI (GPU operators, device plugins), Apptainer/Singularity
  • Automation, IaC , and scripting tools/languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, bash)
  • Storage/data: knowledge of or familiarity with parallel filesystems (Lustre, BeeGFS), object stores, RDMA, data pipeline throughput and caching strategies
  • Hands-on familiarity with on-premises infrastructure, particularly for AI/ML/HPC workloads would be beneficial

  

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or software/computer engineering

 

LOCATIONS:

  • Austin, TX
  • Santa Clara, CA
  • Secaucus, NJ
  • Markham, Ontario, CA

 

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

 

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