GPU Software Development Engineer

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY ENGINEER

The Role

The AMD Game Engineering team works closely with external games software developers and publishers to create some of the best games on the planet. We help them to fully exploit the technical capabilities of AMD's hardware products. Our aim is to raise the standards for gaming graphics and performance. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology. 

Key Skills: Graphics, Rendering, Direct X 12, Vulkan, Desired: ML, Neural Technologies

The Person

The ideal candidate is a highly skilled software designer and engineer, strong in 3D math, fluent in C and C++ and the efficient use of discrete GPUs, APUs, and CPUs. You are team-driven and motivated to do things others might find too difficult. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the external game development partners of AMD to enable them to produce their applications as efficiently as possible
• Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products 
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
• Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
• Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Strong object-oriented programming background, C/C++ preferred
• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
• Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
• Experience with with DirectX-class development tools and techniques for Windows
• Has 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
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  
  
  

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