Datacenter and AI Infrastructure Silicon Performance Architect Job Listing at AMD in Austin, TX (Job ID 76670-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

THE ROLE: 

At AMD, we focus on providing the highest performance computing products to the industry's leading enterprise and cloud providers.  In the AMD Server Performance Group, we build on our depth in microarchitecture knowledge and simulation to analyze and optimize high-performance System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs for critical areas such as AI/ML, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.

We work closely with our partners to ensure that we provide the best performance solutions for their applications and infrastructure computing offerings.  We also work closely with the silicon design teams to influence next generation server compute products.  Typical roles include performance analysis of the hardware microarchitecture and software stack as well as performance model development.  As a senior member of the technical team you'll be leading projects that are critical to AMD's server business segment.

Candidates seeking the most sophisticated and exciting challenges in the computing industry are encouraged to apply. We are passionate about performance innovation.  Check out our opportunity. We have a competitive benefits package and an award-winning culture. Join us! 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Responsible for improving Cloud and AI Infrastructure performance through hardware & software co-optimization, post-silicon performance analysis, and influencing the strategic product roadmap.
• Collaboration with performance experts from our key partner companies to resolve performance issues and optimize the performance and TCO of their AMD datacenter technologies.
• Workload analysis and characterization of AMD and competitive datacenter and AI solutions to identify opportunities for performance improvement in our products.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Experience with CPU, GPU, or computer system microarchitecture (ideally familiarity with all three.
• Proficiency in principles and methods of microarchitecture, software, and hardware relevant to performance engineering
• Proficiency with SoC and system performance analysis fundamentals, tools, and techniques including hardware performance monitors and PERF profiling
• Experience with datacenter and AI workload analysis.
• Experience with multi-core systems and multi-thread interactions
• Experience analyzing and optimizing workloads.
• Experience in IO subsystem microarchitecture performance modeling and strong background in PCI-E/CXL microarchitecture and protocols 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field preferred 

Master's or Ph.D. with an emphasis on Computer Architecture and Performance Analysis of Server Workloads preferred. 

LOCATION: Austin, Tx 

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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.