Application Support Engineer, RDMA Networking

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.

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THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for an influential application support engineer who is passionate about owning the complete customer experience. If you are someone who cares deeply about enabling customer success and thrives wearing multiple hats, then this role is for you. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented individuals working to support the latest hardware and software technologies driving the enablement of large scale AI clusters.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate should be passionate about customer success, customer sentiment and possess leadership and technical skills to drive complex issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD. Having a strong automation and scripting background is a must.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be the technical focal point for assigned customers covering key AMD hardware and software solutions
• Triage, troubleshoot and resolve customer reported issues
• Drive resolution of customer found defects with internal teams with proper validations and documentation
• Work with AMD's architecture specialists to improve future products
• Provide systems/product training to customers and build a knowledge base for customer support and internal partners
• Build tooling to improve customer experience with deployment and operations
• Be part of an on-call rotation to support production systems

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with working directly with end customers and driving customer success
• Strong fundamentals in Datacenter Networking, Routing & Switching incl. load balancing (ECMP), underlay/overlay technologies
• Strong scripting skills in Python/Go/Shell scripting
• Familiarity with GPU operations, Collective Communication Libraries, modern AI training contexts
• Familiarity with InfiniBand protocol & RDMA - including setup, bring up, troubleshooting
• Familiarity with RoCE v2 congestion control protocols
• Familiarity with NCCL/RCCL test benchmarks
• Familiarity with DPU and SmartNics
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, and source code control systems (GitHub) is a plus
• There is not a remote option for this role, MUST BE BASED IN BAY AREA

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