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Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

AMD

Location

San Jose, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

7/24/2026

Compensation

USD $178,500.00/Yr. – USD $255,000.00/Yr.

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.2% approval-61% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

AMD is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead compiler development and GPU performance optimization for next-generation AI and compute platforms. The role involves designing compiler technologies using MLIR and LLVM and developing optimized code-generation flows. The ideal candidate will work closely with GPU architecture, runtime, and AI framework teams to deliver industry-leading performance. This position requires a strong technical leader with expertise in compiler design and GPU architecture.

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on experience with MLIR, LLVM, compiler optimization, lowering, and code generation.
  • Strong knowledge of compiler architecture, intermediate representations, transformation passes, and optimization pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of GPU architecture, including parallel execution, memory hierarchy, caches, registers, synchronization, and occupancy.
  • Advanced C/C++ skills with experience in HIP, CUDA, or similar GPU programming models.
  • Proven experience profiling and optimizing GPU kernels or compute-intensive AI workloads.
  • Experience with AI compilers, tensor or graph compilers, machine learning frameworks, or high-performance computing.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and deliver measurable improvements in latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools or applying AI to compiler and kernel optimization.
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement compiler optimizations using MLIR and LLVM for GPU and AI workloads.
  • Develop compiler passes, intermediate representations, lowering pipelines, and target-specific code generation.
  • Optimize graph transformations, operator fusion, tiling, vectorization, memory planning, and kernel scheduling.
  • Analyze generated GPU code and tune kernels for compute utilization, memory bandwidth, cache efficiency, occupancy, and synchronization.
  • Perform end-to-end performance analysis across AI frameworks, compilers, runtimes, libraries, and GPU hardware.
  • Collaborate with GPU architecture teams to enable new hardware features and drive hardware-software co-design.
  • Build profiling, benchmarking, autotuning, and performance-regression infrastructure.
  • Apply AI and coding agents to compiler development, kernel optimization, debugging, test generation, and performance analysis.
  • Provide technical leadership, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across compiler and GPU projects.

Benefits

  • AMD provides a competitive 'Total Rewards' package that focuses on financial growth, health, and work-life balance.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Advanced Micro Devices Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

71

FY2026

Approval rate

99.2%

FY2026

LCA certified

263

FY2026

Entry-level share

4.2%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-61%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-68%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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