About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Field Application Engineer to join our HPC and AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), to lead the technical engagement of HPC opportunities in Europe. This is a customer facing role where you will help position AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, influence customers, perform Proof of Concepts, build and run applications, and coordinate with partners.
Responsibilities
- Lead HPC technical engagement in key customer accounts through product discussion and demonstration.
- Perform Proof of Concepts and performance testing applications.
- Debug, test, characterize, and compare hardware and toolchain performance.
- Provide CPU recommendations based on generated performance data.
- Liaise with partners on their HPC testing and provide hands-on assistance.
- Pitch and demonstrate EPYC and Instinct for HPC.
- Assist in creating TCO models to aid pricing with the bid desk.
- Characterize applications on EPYC and Instinct, documenting results.
- Perform testing on early CPU samples.
- Engage with Engineering, Architecture, Platform, Software, and Product Development teams, providing feedback and leadership on future direction.
- Create necessary training material and provide training sessions at customer sites.
- Act as a specialist and mentor to the frontline Field Application Engineering team.
- Technically own and resolve customer and partner issues, submitting JIRA tickets and driving resolution.
- Automate repeatable procedures.
Requirements
- Clear track record of technical execution on HPC opportunities.
- Expertise in HPC application performance testing on CPU (and ideally GPU).
- Understand HPC toolchain, how to optimize runtime performance, and the impact of system design and potential mitigation/exploitation strategies.
- Strong technical program management skills.
- Ability to lead technical relationships with both customers and HPC partners.
- Ability to independently prioritize opportunities to deliver results on time.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good level of business English.
- Strong positive can-do attitude willing to do what is necessary.
- Runs to problems and is available to help colleagues.
- Open to travel domestic and international, approximately 10-25%.
Skills
- HPC application performance testing
- CPU performance testing
- GPU performance testing
- HPC toolchain optimization
- System design optimization
- Technical program management
- Customer relationship management
- Partner relationship management
- Prioritization
- Communication
- Compiling large codes from source
- Math library linking
- Flag optimization
- Baseline testing of popular synthetic and real-world codes
- System-level hardware understanding
- Linux administration
- HPC middleware setup
- Building and running HPC applications on GPU
- CUDA
- OpenACC
- OpenMP
- Running AI models on CPU or GPU
- Assembly inspection/writing
- Memory and cache hierarchy understanding
- Dataflow analysis
- Register-level analysis
Location
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- Finland
- Poland
- Italy
Work Type
- Home-based
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 3+ years experience in winning HPC opportunities
- 5+ years HPC application experience
Education Level
- Bachelors' Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics) preferred
Benefits
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About the Company
- At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges.
- Innovation at AMD is shaping the future, from advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day.
- Every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.
Equal Opportunity
- AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
