Senior Software Development Manager

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The Person

As a Senior Manager of Software Development, you will lead a high-performing team of performance engineers focused on optimizing AI workloads across AMD hardware. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical vision, setting direction for performance optimization strategies, and ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals. This role requires deep technical expertise in GPU programming, performance bottleneck analysis, and AI use cases, as well as strong leadership and communication skills to engage with both internal stakeholders and external customers.

If you are passionate about performance optimization, getting the best out of the hardware, and shaping the future of AI performance together with your team, then this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of performance engineers, ensuring professional development, productivity, and engagement.
• Drive the development and delivery of high-quality performance optimization solutions aligned with customer and company goals.
• Engage directly with customers to understand their performance needs and translate them into actionable engineering plans.
• Communicate effectively with upper management on team progress, technical challenges, and customer requirements.
• Set technical direction for the team by identifying performance bottlenecks and defining strategies to overcome them.
• Contribute to and lead efforts in major open-source AI frameworks (e.g., vLLM, Megatron LM, SGLang, xDiT, Hugging Face) to improve customer experience and influence the ecosystem.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define priorities and ensure timely execution.
• Establish and uphold best practices in software development, profiling, benchmarking, and agile project management.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Deep understanding of CPU and GPU architectures, memory hierarchy, instruction scheduling, and performance tradeoffs.
• Strong background in performance engineering, including profiling, benchmarking, and low-level optimization.
• Experience with AI/ML use cases and understanding of model behavior and compute/memory requirements.
• Proven ability to lead and scale engineering teams in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.
• Proficiency in PyTorch is required.
• Familiarity with major open-source AI frameworks such as vLLM, Megatron LM, SGLang, xDiT, and Hugging Face.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience working in Linux-based development environments.
• Hands-on experience with C++ and GPU programming using HIP, CUDA, or OpenCL is a plus.
• Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, DevOps).
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills. Strong written and spoken English language skills (our company language).
• Experience working with agile methodologies and cross-functional teams.
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• BSc, MSc, PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field
  
  
  

LOCATION:

Helsinki, Finland

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