The AI Research Scientist role at AMD focuses on advancing language models and intelligent agents for complex technical and research tasks. The position involves exploring how models acquire domain knowledge, reason, and learn from real development environments. The scientist will engage in model training, agent design, and evaluation, contributing to software development, hardware design, and automated technical discovery. This role requires a combination of research depth and strong engineering skills to address ambiguous problems and improve model capabilities.

• A strong publication record in language models, AI agents, reinforcement learning, or related areas.
• Hands-on experience with LLM pre-training, continued pre-training, or post-training.
• Experience building agents that interact with tools and executable environments.
• Strong Python and deep learning framework skills.
• Familiarity with distributed training, large-scale evaluation, or efficient inference.
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field preferred.

• Research methods for reasoning, planning, tool use, memory, and reliable execution of multistep tasks.
• Develop pre-training and post-training approaches that strengthen models’ technical knowledge and problem-solving capabilities.
• Build learning pipelines using curated corpora, demonstrations, synthetic data, agent trajectories, and execution feedback.
• Apply reinforcement learning and other adaptation methods to improve agent performance in executable environments.
• Investigate inference-time reasoning and search to improve solution quality and computational efficiency.
• Develop agents for software and hardware workflows, including code generation and performance analysis.
• Create benchmarks that measure correctness, generalization, and sustained performance across unfamiliar projects.
• Collaborate with software and hardware teams to translate research into useful capabilities.
• Publish research and share findings through technical reports and working demonstrations.

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