Senior Software Development Engineer

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Join AMD Silo AI's evaluation team as a hands-on evaluation engineer. We need a strong engineer to implement, scale, and operationalize our evaluation frameworks for large-scale language model development for multilingual settings.

You'll be the technical implementation backbone of our evaluation strategy, translating research insights into robust, scalable evaluation systems. Working closely with the pre- and post- training team, you'll focus on the engineering execution that makes high-quality LLM evaluation possible at scale.

The role offers significant technical ownership and the chance to shape how evaluation is done. You'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge LLM evaluation challenges while building systems and creating benchmarks that directly impact open-source model development decisions.

Main Responsibilities

• Extend and modernize our benchmark suite to ensure we are using the most relevant evaluations for base models and post-trained models, with an additional emphasis on expanding coverage of European and low resource language evaluations
• Publish code, benchmark datasets, and analysis notebooks under permissive licenses; engage with upstream tools and contribute fixes or extensions
• Optimize evaluation pipelines for distributed computing environments and multi-GPU setups
• Develop lightweight proxy tasks and ablation protocols that surface issues early in long training runs
  
  
  

Collaboration With Others

• Work closely with pre-training and post-training teams to surface the right information, and help drive decision making for training techniques, data mixes, and data pipelines
• Coordinate with dev infra on experiment tracking, reporting and logging, establishing requirements and driving needed changes
• Collaborate with the OpenEuroLLM project on evaluations for European languages.
  
  
  

Main goals for first 6 months

• Audit current evaluation infrastructure, identify technical bottlenecks and scalability issues
• Framework analysis: Evaluate existing evaluation tools and frameworks, documenting gaps between research needs and current technical capabilities
• Take ownership of the technical side of the existing evaluation framework maintenance
• Define a roadmap for extended experiment tracking capabilities
  
  
  

Ideal Candidate Profile - Required Skills And Qualifications

• Python programming and software engineering best practices
• Experience with PyTorch/Transformers ecosystem
• Experience with evaluation of large machine learning models
• MLOps familiarity: experiment tracking, model versioning, automated pipelines
• Computer Science or Engineering background: BS/MS in related field
• We welcome candidates from mid-level to senior level depending on experience and demonstrated capabilities
  
  
  

We would like to see

• Multilingual evaluation experience, particularly European languages
• Distributed computing experience (multi-GPU evaluation pipelines)
• Academic publications or industry blog posts on ML evaluation
• Experience with EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness or similar frameworks
• Working knowledge of more than one language
• Strong communicator and collaborator
  
  
  

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