Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Chief Competitive Performance & Microarchitecture Analysis

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $160K — $200K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
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Qualifications

  • 5-10 years in CPU/system performance, architecture or benchmarking
  • Experience translating performance data into architecture decisions
  • In-depth knowledge of CPU architecture and behavior
  • Strong understanding of experimental design and benchmark fairness
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting to senior executives
  • Collaboration experience with various technical and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Establish technical strategy and priorities for CPU performance forecasting
  • Manage the predict-validate-translate cycle for workload and architecture assumptions
  • Conduct thorough reviews of CPU and platform performance metrics
  • Implement a disciplined review process for assumptions and uncertainties
  • Consolidate analyses into actionable insights for competitive risks
  • Present executive reports on AMD's market position and strategic recommendations
  • Collaborate with teams to translate data insights into product features

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Flexible working arrangements in a hybrid model
  • Opportunities for professional development and education
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

AMD is seeking a hands-on technical leader and architect to establish the Advanced Competitive Performance capability. You will set the standard for how AMD predicts, validates and communicates future server CPU competitiveness across x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator platforms. This is a technical-authority role: you will personally challenge architecture and workload assumptions, quantify uncertainty and turn complex evidence into timely decisions.

THE PERSON:

You are a respected performance architect who moves comfortably between microarchitecture, workload behavior, quantitative modeling and executive communication. You make uncertain 24-36 month forecasts useful without creating false precision, welcome rigorous peer review and explain both AMD opportunity and competitive risk with clarity and humility.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Set the technical strategy, workload priorities and operating rhythm for AMD competitive CPU performance forecasting.
  • Own the predict-validate-translate cycle: workload taxonomy, architecture and platform assumptions, forecast ranges, validation, model tuning and business translation.
  • Lead reviews of assumptions covering CPU cores, cache and memory hierarchies, I/O, power, platform behavior, software stacks and workload scaling.
  • Establish a review discipline that distinguishes measured results, sourced assumptions, modeled inference and uncertainty.
  • Integrate x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator analyses into one decision-ready view of competitive risks and expected AMD advantage.
  • Deliver concise executive readouts that explain expected position, confidence, key drivers and recommended actions.
  • Partner with architecture, product and software teams to translate evidence into feature and platform recommendations.
  • Set standards for fair benchmarking, configuration control, partner validation, data provenance, clean-room governance and forecast-versus-actual learning.


REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Demonstrated senior technical leadership in CPU or system performance, computer architecture, performance modeling or competitive benchmarking.
  • A record of turning low-level performance evidence into architecture, platform or product decisions.
  • Deep understanding of CPU pipelines, branch prediction, execution resources, cache and TLB behavior, NUMA, memory bandwidth and latency, system I/O, and cross-ISA effects.
  • Strong command of experimental design, benchmark fairness, configuration control, statistical interpretation and reproducibility.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, including the ability to present risk, confidence, alternatives and recommended action to senior audiences.
  • Experience working across architecture, software, platform, product, field or customer, and business stakeholders.


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Direct experience with AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon, Arm Neoverse or cloud-custom server CPUs.
  • Pre-silicon performance modeling, architectural simulators, silicon performance counters or platform telemetry.
  • Partner, customer or OEM performance-lab collaboration and cross-company benchmark validation.
  • AI host-CPU or system analysis, accelerator utilization, rack power, density or system-level TCO.


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Define a new technical capability and its standards rather than inherit a mature process.
  • Influence decisions across CPU architecture, software, platform engineering, product planning and executive leadership.
  • Make long-range competitive forecasts technically honest, measurable and operationally useful.


ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering


LOCATION: Austin, Texas

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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Learn more about Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
Size
15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
NASDAQ
AMD
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