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.
As an AMD intern, you'll be placed at the epicenter of the AI ecosystem, working alongside experts and industry pioneers. You'll do important work, learn new skills, expand your network, and gain real-world experience on projects that impact millions of end-users worldwide. Whether you're an undergrad or a PhD student, your contributions matter—and your experience here will be a launchpad for what comes next.
JOB DETAILS
- Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Onsite/Hybrid: This role requires the student to work full time (40 hours a week), in either a hybrid or onsite work structure throughout the duration of the co-op/intern term
- Duration:
- Summer Internship:
- Semester Students: May 24, 2027 - August 13, 2027
- Quarter Students: June 21, 2027 - September 10, 2027
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
We are seeking highly motivated ML Systems Research Engineering intern/co-op to join our team. In this role you will–
- Develop and optimize infrastructure for distributed training, reinforcement learning, inference, and model optimization.
- Build scalable systems for experiment management, rollout generation, model serving, and evaluation.
- Improve training and inference efficiency through parallelism, scheduling, checkpointing, caching, and performance optimization.
- Develop tools that integrate AI models with engineering systems, evaluation pipelines, and benchmarking frameworks.
- Support experiment tracking, logging, monitoring, and reproducibility across ML workflows.
- Analyze system performance and help identify improvements in reliability, scalability, and resource utilization.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate experimental requirements into production-quality infrastructure.
- Document system designs, experimental results, and technical implementations.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Must be currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- Programming experience in Python.
- Coursework or hands-on experience in artificial intelligence, or computer systems.
- Familiarity with PyTorch or similar machine learning frameworks.
- Interest in distributed systems, reinforcement learning, LLMs, or AI infrastructure.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD's "Responsible AI Policy" is available here.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
