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At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.

Runtime Software Engineer

THE ROLE:

The right engineer will drive the success of power IP (Intellectual Property) and features in AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) products through leadership & coordination, resolution of technical dependencies, and achievement of schedule commits. This is a high-visibility and widely multi-functional role, spanning pre-silicon architecture to post-silicon implementation & product delivery.

THE PERSON: Join AMD’s Virtual Bring-Up (VBU) team as a skilled and performance driven Runtime Software Engineer to developi a cutting-edge FPGA-based datacenter platform. This role will focus on designing, optimizing, and maintaining the runtime software stack that manages hardware resources and orchestrates workloads. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in low-level systems programming and has experience deploying applications in cloud environments.

Your curiosity will drive your learning and innovation to improve how we as a group, and an organization, can get better every day. Your peers will provide you a results-oriented environment for your career growth, fueling your opportunity to be a part of Delighting Our Customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain runtime software and services for managing FPGA resources
• Integrate and optimize middleware layers for workload scheduling, resource allocation, and device management
• Build interfaces between hardware, drivers, and higher-level orchestration layers
• Enable and validate cloud-based deployment of FPGA workloads (e.g., containers, VM images)
• Collaborate closely with hardware, system software, and DevOps teams
• Profile performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations for latency, throughput, and power efficiency
• Develop tools for runtime monitoring, diagnostics, and recovery

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in working with runtime layers for FPGAs or custom accelerators
• Understanding of low-level hardware/software interactions, device drivers, memory-mapped I/O
• Familiarity with Linux systems, system calls, and performance profiling tools
• Experience deploying software in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) using containers or infrastructure-as-code tools (Git, Perforce)
• Understanding of PCIe, DMA, and high-speed interconnects
• Experience in developing EDA tools is a plus
• Experience with Xilinx or Intel FPGA platforms (e.g., Vitis or DPDK with FPGAs)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools for managing FPGA workloads
• Contributions to open-source software or relevant tool chains
• Background in HPC, networking, or real-time systems

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 8+ years of software development experience in systems or embedded environments
• Strong Proficiency in C/C++, Python. Must have Object-oriented programming experience

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.