Application Optimization Engineer, Fortran Job Listing at AMD in Austin, TX (Job ID 37442-en-us)

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Application Software Optimization Engineer, Fortran

THE ROLE:
Would you like to be part of a world class team enabling applications for the world's mightiest supercomputers? AMD is searching for talented and highly motivated computational scientists/engineers to join our team of developers preparing applications for HPC platforms across industry, academia, and national laboratories.

This position is for a mid-level application optimization engineer in high performance computing. You will be part of a team porting and tuning a wide variety of scientific applications for AMD CPU and GPU platforms, with an emphasis on Fortran applications.

THE PERSON:
A computational scientist, physicist, or engineer with experience in multiple scientific computing domains and a track record of collaborating with others on applications and libraries widely used by the scientific computing community, especially programs written in Fortran. Must be self- motivated and possess the ability to work well within a team environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in Fortran ecosystem development by porting and testing Fortran based

  applications to run with various compilers targeting AMD accelerators

• Apply Fortran language expertise by participating in standards development,

  implementation, testing, and documentation

• Understand implications of Fortran and OpenMP standards and their implementations, and apply this knowledge to create correct and performant Fortran programs

• Interact with compiler development teams to diagnose and resolve correctness and performance issues

• Provide Fortran and GPU offloading standards knowledge to other groups at AMD

• Develop and present training materials to internal audiences, at customer venues, and at industry conferences

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience with modern Fortran and C++

• Participation in Fortran language standards committees and standard benchmarking

  efforts

• Strong profiling and performance analysis skills for both CPU and GPU

• Experience in implementing and optimizing parallel methods on GPU accelerators in

  distributed memory systems with MPI, CUDA, HIP, OpenMP, etc.

• Broad experience creating, adapting, and running workloads with widely used HPC

  applications.

• Knowledge of multiple scientific computing disciplines such as finite element analysis,

  computational chemistry, fluid dynamics, weather modeling, and oil and gas applications

• Familiarity with installation and setup of various HPC applications

• Experience with build system tools including Make, CMake, autoconf, and autotools

• In-depth knowledge of software development practices including debug, test, revision

  control, documentation, and bug tracking

• Strong team development skills including demonstrated expertise with git and Jira

• Excellent customer support skills

• Ability to work well in geographically dispersed teams

   

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Engineering or related subjects, or equivalent experience

• At least 5 years of relevant industry experience

LOCATION:
Austin, TX Preferred

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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