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Lead Performance Analysis Engineer

The role:

As a key member of libraries team (AOCL), you will use your application and analysis skills to collaborate and improve application performance for HPC, Cloud, database applications relevant to high-performance and multi-core server systems with a special focus on AMD processors. Engage with leading HPC and ISV customers on open source and software system solutions. Collaborate with a phenomenal team including developers active in the upstream community. When you join our hardworking and engaged team, you will notice right away we are committed to success. Be responsible for analyzing the performance of code, identifying bottlenecks, and designing optimizations to improve performance. It's all about building the world's best infrastructure around AMD's hardware.

The person:

Enjoy problems at scale? This could be your opportunity! Your technical abilities will directly impact AMD’s success with tier-one partners. You will operate with more autonomy and flexibility as you develop in this role. Both by working collaboratively with engineers inside and outside of AMD and by working independently, you will advance technical program goals - drawing on your own expertise, savvy, and problem solving skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Analyze large applications stacks (HPC, cloud, Database) and root cause performance bottlenecks
• Collaborate with US, Europe, and Asia customers in identifying problems and suggesting solutions
• Work with development team in India to keep up with evolving features and sharing insights from customers.

Preferred experience:

• Knowledge of HPC, Enterprise and Cloud workloads/markets/business
• Good understanding of CPU libraries for X86
• Experience in working with customers/partners across the world
• Representing technical teams in customer meetings
• Experience in performance analysis for data center, HPC (High Performance Computing), MPI (Message passing Interface) applications
• Hands-on experience with setting up cluster or multi –node inter-connected systems
• Experience in software development using C/C++ and debugging skills on multicore systems – a plus
• Some experience on Intel MKL libraries, Linear Algebra, FFT, and/or x86 assembly programming - a plus
• Exposure to compiler technologies, use of optimized libraries, and/or profiler tools - a plus
• Minimum of Bachelors degree with 6 years of relevant experience or Masters degree with 4 years of relevant experience or PhD with 1 year of relevant experience

Academic Credentials:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science. Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Masters with emphasis on Algorithms or Computer Architecture preferred