Director Software Development - Gaming Technology Job Listing at AMD in CA (Job ID 84423-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

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.  

THE ROLE:

The AMD Game Engineering team partners closely with external game developers and publishers to deliver some of the best gaming experiences globally. We empower developers to fully harness the power of AMD's cutting-edge CPU, GPU, and APU hardware pushing the boundaries of gaming graphics and performance.

As the Gaming Technology Engineering Director, you will lead a core team of highly skilled industry specialists, collaborating with game development studios on the latest hardware and software technologies, especially FSR integration into the world's leading gaming titles. You will be instrumental in driving feature adoption, performance optimization, and stability improvements for future AAA game titles across AMD platforms.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise in game engine development and graphics optimization, experienced in scaling teams across fast‑paced, matrixed, and global environments. They are passionate about game development and talent growth as well as driving engineering excellence and world‑class results. They are AI‑forward and pragmatic, effectively leveraging modern AI‑assisted tools to accelerate integration, debugging, and optimization while coaching teams on responsible use. They showcase strong communication skills while being a collaborative partner who is energized by complex technical challenges.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define vision and strategy for your group's technical initiatives. Work closely with your teams, account managers, program managers, and game developers to develop and foster community mindshare
• Work with AMD's architecture specialists to improve future products, both software and hardware.
• Prioritize work efforts to ensure development and verification teams stay focused on the key deliverables supporting technology inflection points and product launches.
• Recruit, retain, and coach individuals to scale up engineering teams.
• Create an inclusive culture mentoring your teams to consistently deliver commitments and foster innovation that advances the state-of-the-art game rendering, compute, and multithreading technologies.
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes, resource allocation, and execution efficiency within your teams, and collaborate with peers across AMD to scale processes to support a rapidly changing and growing business.
• Own operational reporting: define, track, and report key operational metrics (e.g., delivery health, integration progress, performance/stability milestones, resourcing) and regular status updates to executive management.
• Stay informed of AI, software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to development workflow acceleration, algorithms and architecture.
• Establish and lead an AI-accelerated engineering workflow: demonstrate critical knowledge of key AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) to speed AMD feature integration and game title performance/stability optimization, and train the team to use these tools effectively and responsibly.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Track record of delivering complex software products through full hardware/software lifecycle.
• Experience leading software optimization teams where performance and stability are paramount.
• Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs .
• Strong graphics code optimization skills, in particular shader code optimizations.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus .
• Hands-on experience using modern AI coding assistants and code-aware copilots (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate development, debugging, integration, and optimization; ability to coach and scale best practices across a team.
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's degree (B.Sc., B.Eng.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related fields.
• Advanced degrees (M.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D.) are a plus.

LOCATIONS: 

This role is open to remote out of the US and Canada. 

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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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.