Staff Software Development Engineer - Rust, Compilers, and GPU Systems

Job Title

Staff Software Development Engineer - Rust, Compilers, and GPU Systems

Role Summary

Design and implement production-quality Rust systems and compiler infrastructure for AMD GPU software, spanning compilers, runtimes, low-level GPU software, firmware, and developer tooling. Work across abstraction layers to improve safety, correctness, and performance of hardware-software interfaces.

Experience Level

Senior (Staff level). The posting does not specify a required number of years of experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include leading design and implementation, defining interfaces, and improving validation and deployment practices for Rust-based GPU systems.

• Lead design and implementation of Rust components for low-level, performance-sensitive GPU systems.
• Integrate Rust into the GPU software stack: toolchain, libraries, diagnostics, testing, and deployment practices.
• Design compiler pipelines involving rustc, MIR, MLIR/IR, LLVM IR, and AMDGPU code generation.
• Develop analyses, transformations, legalization passes, and target-specific lowering for GPU execution models and memory spaces.
• Define and validate typed, auditable interfaces across compiler, runtime, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
• Work on ABI, calling conventions, linker/loader behavior, ELF and code-object metadata, and source-to-binary identity.
• Develop or improve bare-metal and no_std Rust components with predictable hardware effects.
• Use testing, fuzzing, differential testing, property-based testing, executable models, and hardware validation to prevent regressions.
• Apply program analysis or formal methods where they add assurance; document trusted boundaries and evidence.
• Collaborate with architecture, compiler, runtime, firmware, validation, security, and performance teams; write design documents and mentor engineers.

Requirements

Must-have skills are focused on production Rust and low-level systems reasoning; preferred skills increase effectiveness across compiler and GPU stacks.

• Must-have: Strong production Rust experience (ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, generics, concurrency, FFI) and proven systems-programming ability in C/C++ or equivalent.
• Must-have: Ability to reason about correctness across concurrency, ordering, ABI compatibility, and compiler transformations.
• Must-have: Experience designing and executing testing/validation strategies (fuzzing, differential testing, property-based testing, hardware validation).
• Nice-to-have: Experience with rustc internals, MIR, custom codegen backends, or other Rust toolchain infrastructure.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with LLVM, MLIR, GCC, IR design, optimization passes, instruction selection, or target-specific code generation.
• Nice-to-have: Knowledge of linkers/loaders, ELF/object formats, code-object metadata, DWARF, or binary rewriting.
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with GPU execution models, AMDGPU/GCN/RDNA/CDNA, ROCm, HIP, or AMDGPU LLVM backend and GPU runtimes/drivers/firmware.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with program analysis, symbolic execution, model checking, SMT solvers, or formal verification tools and executable specifications.
• Nice-to-have: Hardware-software co-design experience and technical leadership experience (mentoring, cross-team influence, design reviews).

Education Requirements

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is listed as preferred; equivalent industry experience is explicitly acceptable. Research publications and advanced degrees are welcome but not required.

About the Company

Company: Advanced Micro Devices

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, USA

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, is a global semiconductor company that designs and manufactures microprocessors, graphics processors, and related technologies for a variety of computing devices. Known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, AMD's mission is to deliver high-performance computing solutions for AI, data centers, gaming, and embedded applications. They foster a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on creativity and problem-solving, aiming to drive progress and excellence in technology.