Applied Research Scientist - AI Models & Agents

About this role

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture

We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career

THE ROLE: The AI Models team is looking for exceptional machine learning scientists and engineers to explore and innovate on training and inference techniques for large language models (LLMs), large multimodal models (LMMs), image/video generation and other foundation models as well as self-evolving agents on top of these. You will be part of a world-class research and development team focussing on efficient and scalable pre-training, instruction tuning, alignment and optimization. As an early member of the team, you can help us shape the direction and strategy to fulfill this important charter

THE PERSON: This role is for you if you are passionate about reading through the latest literature, coming up with novel ideas, and implementing those through high quality code to push the boundaries on scale and performance. The ideal candidate will have both theoretical expertise and hands-on experience with developing and optimizing LLMs, LMMs, and/or diffusion models. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Improve upon the state-of-the-art in Generative AI model architectures and their compatibility on AMD accelerators Accelerate the training and inference speed through various optimizations

Build AI agents to automatically write and evaluate efficient kernels and code

Apply for this role on AMD’s official careers site.