What you do at AMD changes everything 
 

At AMD, we push the boundaries of what is possible.  We believe in changing the world for the better by driving innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies – building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the data center. 
 

Developing great technology takes more than talent: it takes amazing people who understand collaboration, respect, and who will go the “extra mile” to achieve unthinkable results. It takes people who have the passion and desire to push boundaries, deliver innovation, and change the world.   If you have this type of passion, we invite you to take a look at the opportunities available to come join our team.
 

Performance Architect Engineer 

The Role:

AMD’s SoC and Server Performance Architecture team delivers performance features and models for all of AMD’s flagship systems. This includes AMD’s Server, Client, Game Console, discrete graphics, and machine learning products. As an engineer on this high-caliber team, you analyze and optimize high-performance SoC and subsystem designs for Cloud computing, machine intelligence acceleration, and immersive mobile processing. You will be able to influence performance architecture development across a wide range of high performance products from client APUs, Server CPUs, Discrete Graphics products and APUs for Game Console products. AMD has a strong product line and a compelling roadmap of products. This opportunity has tremendous growth potential. This is a unique opportunity to work with the performance architecture team that helped AMD design award winning product families like Ryzen and EPYC.

The Person:

Do you seek to tackle the most complex and exciting challenges in the computing industry? We thrive solving sophisticated performance challenges across a range of compute areas. Develop experience on our small technical team with our mentorship as you use your curiosity and motivation to deliver outstanding results. This opportunity puts you at the heart of the action! Discover and implement solutions to performance issues through multi-discipline interactions with microprocessor architects, ISA definition owners, software optimizers, compiler team, logic designers, and verification engineers to identify, resolve and document architectural performance issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Optimize high-performance System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs through performance modeling and analysis for SoC designs that include next-generation CPU cores, memory technologies, scalable interconnects, and quality-of-service
• Propose solutions to enhance performance through a strong understanding of design architecture
• Responsible for micro-benchmarking, workload characterization, competitive analysis, bottleneck identification, and optimization
• Develop and improve tools and methodology for performance analysis of workloads

Preferred Experience:

• CPU, GPU, or computer system microarchitecture
• Development and usage of computer system performance models
• Computer workload analysis
• Strong programming skills, including experience with C++ and Python (or similar)

Academic Credentials:

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field of study