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Principal Software Developer in Canada new

  • Markham

Responsibilities

  • Own ROCm’s end-to-end validation architecture across functional, workload, performance, stress, stability, scale-out, and system-level test layers.
  • Define release-qualification gates, exit criteria, coverage standards, performance baselines, stability targets, scale targets, and RAS criteria.
  • Architect distributed test runners, CI fleets, hardware-lab orchestration, result data lakes, flaky-test detection, bisection automation, and developer pre-submit pipelines.
  • Establish GitHub-based quality workflows, PR gating policies, required checks, code-coverage standards, bug-bash cadences, and issue-management practices.
  • Lead root-cause analysis of complex multi-component, multi-node, hardware, firmware, and customer escalations.
  • Drive validation of multi-GPU server nodes, PCIe, Infinity Fabric, xGMI, BMC/IPMI, thermal and power behavior, firmware interactions, and Ethernet/InfiniBand/UALink fabrics.
  • Lead AI/ML and HPC workload validation for training, inference, recommender systems, scientific kernels, and benchmark suites.
  • Mentor Senior and Staff validation engineers, SDETs, and SQA leads through technical reviews and written guidance.
  • Influence validation roadmaps for next-generation Instinct GPUs and represent ROCm validation in customer, OEM, and open-source engagements.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
  • Software engineering experience in validation, SDET, or quality engineering, including leadership of complex systems validation.
  • Expert Python skills for test automation and infrastructure and strong C++ skills for debugging and production-code extensions.
  • Deep expertise in at least two relevant areas, including GPU software stacks, AI/ML frameworks, HPC runtimes and communication libraries, Linux kernel or drivers, accelerator firmware, or distributed systems.
  • Experience validating multi-GPU, multi-node server platforms through stress, soak, fault-injection, and RAS testing.
  • Experience defining release-qualification programs for hyperscalers, OEMs, or Tier-1 customers.
  • Experience contributing to validation, CI, or test infrastructure for ROCm, PyTorch, LLVM, Triton, vLLM, or similar open-source projects.
  • Experience with agentic AI workflows, automated testing, AI-driven debugging, MCP, and RAG-based engineering solutions.
  • Experience validating or operating large-scale GPU clusters of 256 or more GPUs, including fabric bring-up, health monitoring, and diagnostics.
  • Familiarity with AI training, inference, HPC benchmark methodologies, performance validation, profiling tools, hardware-lab automation, and pre-silicon or first-silicon accelerator bring-up.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role located in San Jose, California.
  • AMD benefits are offered; details are provided through AMD’s benefits overview.

AMD

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