Principal AI Performance Engineer

AMD · San Jose, CA · Engineering

principal data engineering Database Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Mar 11, 2026

About this role

AMD is hiring a principal-level Database Engineer in the data engineering function based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, CUDA, PyTorch, LLMs.

Role
Database Engineer
Function
data engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Location
San Jose, CA
Department
Engineering
Posted
Mar 11, 2026
AI Summary
Lead AI inference performance optimization on AMD GPUs, driving end-to-end stack profiling and kernel-level tuning for customer deployments. Manage a technical team while tackling distributed serving, GPU kernels, and cross-stack bottlenecks. Requires deep GPU architecture knowledge, AI workload expertise, and customer-facing technical leadership.
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Job description

from AMD careers


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.  




PRINCIPAL AI PERFORMANCE ENGINEER

 

THE ROLE:

 

AMD is looking for a performance-obsessed engineer to drive AI inference performance to the absolute limit on AMD GPUs. You will lead a small, highly technical team and work end-to-end across the stack: profiling, diagnosing, and optimizing leading models on customer-relevant serving configurations (e.g. agentic coding, long-context, high-throughput serving). You move from challenge to challenge, tackling the hardest performance problems across our most strategic customer engagements and leaving behind measurable uplifts and reusable methodology. This is not a sustaining role: every engagement is different, every optimization leaves a lasting impact.
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