Ryzen/Radeon Lead Power & Performance Systems Design Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Markham, ON (Job ID 85349-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:  

The AMD CG (Compute-Graphics) Performance and Power Engineering Team carries the duty of ensuring AMD APU (Ryzen) & GPU (Radeon) products deliver performance leadership and superior power efficiency. We work with various cross-functional teams that allows us to engage in all sorts of work that impacts current and future products. This role offers the opportunity to show your passion towards CPU, APU, and GPU technology to provide users with the best possible experience. The team is passionate about power and performance attainment and product definition with primary responsibilities in post-silicon bring-up, feature and workload optimization and characterization, debug and product optimization. Successful candidate will assume responsibility for post-silicon activities related to power and performance characterization and optimization of AMD CG products across gaming, productivity, compute and AI workloads.

THE PERSON:  

Your curiosity will drive your learning to improve how we as a group, and an organization, can get better every day, and your peers will provide you a challenging and supportive environment for your career growth, fueling your opportunity to be a part of Delighting Our Customers.

We at AMD are Gamers and Performance Enthusiasts at heart, so if you like Extreme Performance and seeing your hard work provide direct benefits to our customers' quality of computing life, you would love our team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Lead cross-functional teams to track and execute test plans for power and performance feature validation, characterization and optimization
• Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs  
• Driving continuous improvement and technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities for test plan execution and the product itself, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
• Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks 
• Leading collaborative approach with multiple teams 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Extensive knowledge of silicon power and system performance, system architecture, and validation strategy
• Familiarity with AI model usage an asset
• Debug techniques and methodologies 
• Extensive experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.  
• Extensive experience with board/platform-level debugging, including delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization 
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details 
• Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python) an asset
• Knowledge of current AI models and their usage
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
• Extremely organized and a strong multi-tasker

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer / Electrical Engineering preferred with 6-8+ years industry experience

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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.