Software Development Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices in Shanghai, Shanghai, China focuses on From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.
At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.
Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.
THE ROLE:
AMD is looking for a senior software engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor you will be part of a leading team to drive and enhance AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market.
If you want to work with leading professors in top universities supporting exciting research and teaching projects using our state-of-the-art technologies, we invite you to apply to join our University Program team, which is part of the AMD Research and Advanced Development group.
We advance academic teaching, research, and entrepreneurial activities with our technologies by:
- Providing educators and researchers with access to our latest technology
- Developing and delivering teaching and training workshops designed for academia
- Developing open-source hardware and software projects for and with academia
- Organizing academic contests, hackathons, and other events
- Enabling new business and technical opportunities through partnerships
THE PERSON:
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team. You will join a team that is passionate about enabling academics with AMD High Performance and Adaptive Computing technologies. In this position you will be working our latest hardware and software. You will make use of innovative technologies to help us to support and continuously streamline our engineering and business processes necessary to ensure that our academic customers have a great service.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Enabling the use of AI, High Performance and Adaptive Computing technologies in academia
- Delivering technical training workshops to professors and graduate students on our latest hardware and software technologies
- Creating teaching materials, labs, design examples, demos and application notes
- Collaborating with faculty and students on research and teaching programs
- Collaborating with faculty on external funding opportunities and large programs
- Developing technical projects and supervising intern projects as required
- Supporting conferences, trade shows and customer-facing events
- Supporting academic customer queries and technical issues
- Collaborating with other teams at AMD and external partners on academic programs
- Contributing to the specification, evaluation, and development of systems for academic use
- Identifying and disseminating examples of best practices in teaching and research
- Keeping up to date with latest developments in the related markets and local industries
- Managing of operations and special programs
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Hands-on use of AI tools, frameworks, and platforms (e.g., Agentic AI, PyTorch, or similar).
- Familiarity with GPU and AI technologies and CUDA/ROCm software.
- Strong software programming and development skills.
- Proven problem-solver and self-starter, able to work independently and take the lead on new initiatives.
- Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, comfortable working across cross-functional and remote teams.
- Willingness to travel nationally and internationally to support program needs.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
LOCATION:
Shanghai
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