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Software Engineer – AI Inference and Performance Optimization

AMD Austin, TX, United States Full-time 6 days ago
Embedded & Systems Software

Optimize AI inference runtimes and workloads across AMD platforms with the CG-AIM team.

Originally posted 5 November 2026 by the employer.

About the role

Join AMD’s CG-AIM team to develop and optimize AI inference software for AMD platforms. You will work with architecture and engineering teams to improve performance, efficiency, and scalability across AI workloads.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize AI inference software, runtimes, and workloads.
  • Identify bottlenecks and improve latency, throughput, and memory efficiency.
  • Integrate and validate improvements with architecture and software teams.
  • Build benchmarks and automated tests to track performance and correctness.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Software development, debugging, and problem-solving skills to turn performance analysis into practical improvements.

Nice to have

  • Strong C/C++ and Python development skills.
  • Experience with AI frameworks, inference runtimes, and performance profiling.
  • Familiarity with GPU programming, parallel computing, and memory optimization.
  • Experience with PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, ROCm, HIP, or similar technologies.

Skills: AI inference, ROCm, GPU programming, C++, ONNX Runtime

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Market context

First seen in our index 5 days ago, well below the 49-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.

Infrastructure/Platform Software · GPU Software Stack

Open roles in category
324
Median days since first seen
49 d
Category median salary (all employers)
$220k
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How AMD compares in Infrastructure/Platform Software hiring
Metric AMD All employers we track in this specialty (324 roles · 22 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 73 324
Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family 384 6558 · 157 employers
Median days since first seen 22 d 49 d (+27 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) n/a $220k

Skills observed across this category: AI inference, ROCm, GPU programming, C++, ONNX Runtime

Who's hiring in this category

  • NVIDIA · 162 open roles · median 71 d
  • AMD (this employer) · 72 open roles · median 40 d
  • Intel Corporation · 32 open roles · median 21 d
  • Qualcomm · 19 open roles · median 90 d
  • Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 14 d
  • Graphcore · 4 open roles · median 21 d

How we counted: 324 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (GPU Software Stack) roles from 22 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.

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Austin, TX, United States
On-site
Full-time
6 days ago

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