Principal Performance Tools Developer Job Listing at AMD in Santa Clara, CA (Job ID 67003-en-us)

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PRINCIPLE PERFORMANCE TOOLS DEVELOPER

THE ROLE: 

As a Principal Performance Tools Developer, you will take a lead role in designing, building, and maintaining a world-class suite of tools to automate critical engineering workflows. Your primary focus will be providing direct and immediate support to our technical users, who rely on this automation platform for benchmarking of large-scale, GPU-enabled data center applications. This role requires developing an in-depth, expert-level knowledge of our team's processes, diverse workloads, and complex infrastructure to ensure maximum stability, reliability, and user success. You will be a key technical contributor on the cutting edge of Data Center GPU.

THE PERSON: 

We are seeking a seasoned, accountable, and proactive software engineer with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for user enablement. The ideal candidate is a problem-solver who thrives on providing direct support and translating user needs into robust, reliable solutions. You must possess the leadership skills and sound judgment to drive sophisticated issues to resolution, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and work collaboratively with different teams across AMD to ensure platform stability and success. A process-oriented mindset and a commitment to understanding and improving established systems are essential.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Serve as a primary point of contact for user support, troubleshooting issues, and gathering feedback to drive platform improvements.
• Develop and maintain a deep, comprehensive understanding of our automation framework, infrastructure, and user workflows to become a subject matter expert.
• Enhance and maintain a web-based front-end and workload submission portal, prioritizing stability and features that directly address user-reported needs.
• Build a highly reliable, self-service reporting system that automates the creation of informative tables and graphs for engineers, business units, and management.
• Ensure the scalability, performance, and monitoring of our Azure Cloud-based Web-App deployments.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to establishing best practices for development, testing, and user support.
• Develop scripted automation and investigate AI-agents to improve front-end interactions and user efficiency.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of supporting production systems and interacting directly with a technical user base.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python, Ansible, Structured and Unstructured DB's (SQL/Mongo), Linux, Docker, Azure with a deep understanding of front-end architecture for complex, data-intensive applications.
• Demonstrated experience in a senior role requiring strong ownership, accountability, and the ability to work effectively within established team processes.
• Extensive experience with MS Azure, including Web-Apps, Functions, and Azure Monitor for logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience using AI development tools (cursor, cline, windsurf…)
• Proficiency in JavaScript (React) for front end work and troubleshooting.
• Expert-level knowledge of web application development frameworks (CSS/HTML).
• Must have: A proactive and inquisitive mindset focused on root cause analysis, reliability, and user-centric solutions.
• Good to have:
  o Experience with data visualization tools (Plotly, Matplotlib, Pandas).
  o Experience with REST API development and containerization (Flask, Kubernetes).
  o Familiarity with infrastructure and workload automation tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Nice to have:
  o Experience with Grafana, Jupyter/JupyterHub, Docker Swarm.
  o Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent extensive professional experience

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