Systems Software Developer – Gpu Hardware Stress

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Systems Software Developer – GPU Hardware Stress
The Role
Our growing team plays a major role in architecting and shaping data center GPUs offered by AMD.
As part of the Infrastructure & Exerciser team, you will architect and develop low-level and Linux userspace programs (“exercisers”) to expose silicon and software bugs. This will require strong collaboration with stakeholders from design, emulation, driver, firmware, and debug teams.
Candidates with a background or strong skills in both low-level programming (firmware, GPU compute, x86_64) and systems programming (Linux kernel and userspace) will excel in this role.
Out-of-the-box thinking and leveraging of novel approaches to address tough technical challenges is encouraged.
Join our growing team to accelerate introduction of cutting-edge compute products into the datacenter market.
The Person

• Must be a team player but also be able to work efficiently with minimal supervision
• Has strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills with excellent attention to details
• Has a strong interest in GPU hardware, firmware, and/or systems programming
• Is very familiar with Linux and Linux systems programming

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in debugging found issues to root cause
• Contribute to in-house stress application frameworks (C++)
• Develop new stress applications utilizing knowledge of the underlying microarchitecture to discover issues in hardware and software

Preferred Experience
The preferred candidate has worked on at least three projects utilizing many of the skills below.

• Low-level/firmware programming
• Linux userspace systems programming
• Linux device drivers and/or kernel development
• AI expertise
• GPU programming (CUDA / HIP / OpenCL / SP3 assembly)
• Modern C++ (14+) programming
• Experience with parallel programming, concurrency, and memory consistency models
• GPU architecture expertise

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor or master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science or an equivalent preferred

LOCATION:
Markham, Ontario
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