Lead/Staff AI/ML Validation Engineer

Cross-Team Collaboration

Quality Metrics & Continuous Improvement

Technical Skills

• Strong experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or SDET roles.
• Solid proficiency in C++ with debugging experience (gdb/lldb).
• Working knowledge of HIP or CUDA runtime concepts, including kernels, streams, memory models, and device execution.
• Experience with Linux-based development and debugging.
• Familiarity with CI systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests for low-level systems or runtime libraries.

Debugging & Analysis Skills

Preferred Qualifications

What Success Looks Like

Qualifications

• Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance. AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. 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. AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Responsibilities

• Role Overview We are seeking an experienced SMTS Software Quality Engineer to join the HIP Runtime Quality Engineering team within the ROCm ecosystem. In this role, you will focus on defect triage, root‐cause analysis, and scalable test automation for the HIP runtime, ensuring robustness, portability, and performance across AMD and NVIDIA GPU backends. The role sits at the intersection of runtime systems, GPU APIs, and CI-driven quality assurance, working closely with HIP runtime developers, compiler teams, and system software engineers to improve test coverage and accelerate issue resolution across a fast-evolving open‐source stack. HIP is a C++ runtime API and kernel language designed for CUDA portability and heterogeneous GPU programming in the ROCm platform. Key Responsibilities Defect Triage & Root Cause Analysis - Own end-to-end triage of HIP runtime failures observed in CI, nightly, and release testing pipelines. - Analyze failures across HIP runtime APIs, including memory management, streams, events, kernels, graphs, and device management. - Perform log analysis, repro reduction, and backtrace debugging across Linux and Windows environments. - Correlate failures across: - ROCr system runtime - HIP runtime - Driver / firmware interfaces - Compiler (hipcc / clang) interactions - File high‐quality bug reports with clear reproduction steps, root cause hypotheses, and impact assessment. Test Automation & Framework Development - Design, enhance, and maintain automated test frameworks for HIP runtime validation using existing HIP test infrastructure (Catch2-based and custom harnesses).