Roadmap Program Manager - AI GPU Software team

at  Advanced Micro Devices Inc

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Project and Portfolio Management experience in industry
• Excellent presentation, negotiation and leadership skills; Attention to details
• Demonstrated ability to optimally lead technical discussions across a breadth of technical domains
• Strong social skills and outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Experience in leading sophisticated, interrelated projects, programs, and functions
• Great teammate with a dedication to meeting deadlines and an aptitude to thrive in a fast-moving multi-tasking environment
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Program Increments, Lean, Kanban
• Experience working with customers is an asset
• Experience program running Linux based products is a plus.
• Experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Project 2016, Jenkins & Robot Frameworks
• Experience in Machine Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, Caffe2, PyTorch, etc.) is highly desired
• Experience in delivering software for new hardware products and GPUs is an advantage
• Experience in High Performance Computing is preferred
• Experience in Virtualization frameworks (Linux KVM, etc.) is desired
• Experience in Containerization frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Software development experience
• PMP certification is highly desirable, but not required

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.
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Responsibilities:

THE ROLE:

As roadmap program manager in AMD’s AI GPU Software team, you will drive planning of a project portfolio of leading-edge technology in high performance GPU-accelerated compute and machine learning for the ROCm software stack. You will learn about how the power of open-source software can be applied to solve real-world problems. You will interact with product management, customers, software and hardware engineering teams, quality assurance and operations in a new and growing team

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work closely with product managers, engineering managers, and software developers to own the planning of the machine learning and high-performance compute software roadmap to successful delivery in software releases.

• Run the intake of new improvement requests across business units, software functional organizations and finance/ops, working closely with product management to achieve clarity on the relative priorities and requirements.
• Dive deep into technical aspects of new requests; Be responsible for the scoping of the software enhancements, coordinating across functional teams to gather all dependencies and commitments.
• Drive the planning and development of a committed software release plan
• Drive the development of technology roadmaps in collaboration with functional managers and publish near term and long-term roadmaps
• Drive interlock with business units on the engineering roadmap including prioritization and gap analysis monthly.
• Be comfortable manipulating and extracting data in JIRA, Excel, Project, and communicating in PowerPoint
• Support engineering management in resource planning (people and materials), as well as driving execution, including time-to-market and R&D efficiency
• Working collaboratively with engineering management to drive excellence in the AMD Program Management community to supervise Key Metrics and help continuous process improvement, applying Agile concepts to adapt to the dynamic environment