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Memory Systems Architecture Researcher - 126641

The Role:

AMD Research is an entrepreneurial research organization with a strong track record of driving research innovations into AMD products. We are a global leader in the development of the world’s most advanced high-performance computers (HPC), such as El Capitan, the world-leading 2 exaflop supercomputer.

AMD Research is looking for a researcher to invent, design, and develop future memory microarchitecture, interfaces, and hardware.

The Person:

You cannot stop inventing, implementing, and validating new ways to increase memory architecture efficiency and performance. Does this describe you? If so, then join us!

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze performance limitations of current and planned memory architectures; conceive of optimizations and new memory features to accelerate the memory performance and/or energy efficiency.
• Implement innovative software and/or hardware memory solutions and demonstrate their effectiveness analytically and in simulation.
• Drive the results of the research projects into product roadmaps.
• Submit patentable inventions.
• Clearly communicate research results to academic, product and commercial audiences.

Required Skills:

• Deep understanding of memory architecture fundamentals.
• Demonstrated experience in memory performance and/or power analysis and memory simulator and/or emulator development.
• Demonstrated experience in ideation, evaluation, and optimization of a research project.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.

Additional Experience Desired:

• Knowledge of advanced statistics and machine-learning techniques
• Experience in reliability, storage, or interconnect modeling is a plus.

Academic Credentials:

• PhD degree or equivalent accomplishments in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field