GPU Kernel Performance Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Beijing (Job ID 78112-en-us)

Description

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The Role: 

The TrainingAtScale team at AMD is looking for a Training Optimization Engineer to help build and optimize our large-scale training infrastructure on AMD GPUs. 

This is an engineering-focused role centered around improving the performance, stability, and scalability of distributed training systems. You will work closely with internal model and platform teams to advance training infrastructure across pre-training, post-training, reinforcement learning (RL), and world model training frameworks, pushing the boundaries of generative AI model development. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Participate in the development and maintenance of AMD's internal training framework, covering pre-training, post-training, and reinforcement learning (RL) pipelines. 

• Optimize distributed training pipelines and parallelism strategies (Data Parallelism, Tensor Parallelism, Pipeline Parallelism, ZeRO, etc.). 

• Improve communication scheduling and kernel overlap to reduce training latency and maximize GPU utilization. 

• Tune the performance of core operators using HIP/CUDA and low-level profiling tools. 

• Integrate and adapt open-source training frameworks such as Megatron-LM, TorchTitan, DeepSpeed, etc. 

• Support internal model training workloads with performance, reliability, and scalability improvements. 

• Collaborate across teams to investigate and resolve system-level bottlenecks in large-scale training. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Solid engineering background and familiarity with end-to-end deep learning training workflows. 

• Hands-on experience with training framework internals (e.g., Megatron-LM, TorchTitan, DeepSpeed, Verl, Slime, TransformerEngine). 

• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills (profiling, tracing, etc.). 

• Understanding of distributed training techniques such as data parallelism, tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism, ZeRO optimization. 

• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. 

Bonus Points: 

• Experience with large-scale model training (e.g., LLMs, MoE, Diffusion, Wan, WorldModel). 

• Hands-on experience with CUDA or HIP kernel development. 

• Familiarity with communication libraries such as NCCL/RCCL and techniques like kernel overlap. 

• Prior involvement in high-performance ML infrastructure projects, especially in pre-training and reinforcement learning (RL) framework development. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.