MTS Silicon Design Engineer (Pre-Silicon Performance Modeling Engineer) Job Listing at AMD in Bengaluru, KA (Job ID 57136-en-us)

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Pre-Silicon Performance Modeling Engineer

Job Title: Pre-Silicon Performance Modeling Engineer

Job Level: Member of Technical Staff (MTS)

Location: Bengaluru, India

Job Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Pre-Silicon Performance Modeling Engineer to join our cutting-edge SoC architecture and design team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in performance modeling, simulation, and projections, with a focus on analyzing, optimizing, and predicting system performance to meet product goals. This role involves close collaboration with architecture, design, and validation teams to shape the next generation of high-performance, power-efficient SoCs.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance Modeling and Simulation

• Develop, enhance, and maintain detailed performance models for SoC subsystems and full-system architectures.
• Simulate real-world workloads to analyze performance bottlenecks, power trade-offs, and system behavior.
• Build and validate analytical and cycle-accurate models to predict performance across various configurations.

Workload Characterization

• Analyze diverse workloads, including application benchmarks and customer use cases, to determine system performance requirements.
• Create synthetic workloads and test cases to stress specific system components and validate model accuracy.

Performance Projections and Analysis

• Generate accurate performance projections for new SoC architectures and features.
• Perform trade-off analysis to evaluate architectural options, including core configurations, cache hierarchies, memory subsystems, and interconnects.
• Collaborate with power modeling teams to understand and balance performance-per-watt metrics.

Collaboration and Influence

• Work closely with architects, RTL designers, and firmware engineers to ensure alignment of performance targets across hardware and software layers.
• Provide actionable insights to guide architectural decisions and influence SoC design specifications.
• Partner with marketing teams to validate performance claims and create data-driven content for product positioning.

Tools and Methodologies

• Develop or enhance performance modeling tools and frameworks to improve simulation speed, accuracy, and scalability.
• Maintain robust documentation and best practices for performance modeling workflows.

Debugging and Issue Resolution

• Identify and debug discrepancies between performance model results and silicon behavior.
• Continuously refine models to improve accuracy based on post-silicon data and lessons learned.

Required Qualifications:

• Education:

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (Ph.D. preferred).

• Technical Skills:
  • Strong knowledge of SoC architecture, including CPU, GPU, memory hierarchy, interconnects, and accelerators.
  • Expertise in performance modeling tools and simulation frameworks (e.g., SystemC, Gem5, or proprietary tools).
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C++, or MATLAB for model development and automation.
  • In-depth understanding of performance metrics, bottleneck analysis, and workload characterization.
• Experience:
  • 10+ years of experience in performance modeling or SoC architecture.
  • Experience working with both analytical and cycle-accurate models.
  • Proven ability to project performance for pre-silicon designs and validate against silicon results.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with power modeling and energy-efficiency optimization.
• Hands-on experience with hardware simulators, emulators, or FPGA prototypes.
• Knowledge of industry-standard benchmarks (e.g., SPEC, Dhrystone) and real-world workload behavior.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

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