Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Principal Performance Modeling Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field plus 5 years of relevant experience.
  • MS degree plus 8 years of experience in a Computer Architect or Design Engineer role.
  • Bachelors degree plus 12 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong programming skills, especially in C++ and Python.
  • Experience with GPU, CPU, or computer system microarchitecture.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Performance Architect on AMD's electronics design engineering team.
  • Participate in performance modeling and analysis for next-generation GPU and data center systems.
  • Understand design architecture to propose performance enhancement solutions.
  • Conduct micro-benchmarking and workload characterization for optimization.
  • Develop tools and methodologies for analyzing workload performance.
  • Communicate and implement solutions to address processor and system performance issues.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive AMD benefits package.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Collaboration with cutting-edge technology teams.
  • Work on meaningful projects in cloud computing and machine learning.
Full Job Description
The Role:

Architect, Analyze and optimize high-performance SoCs for Cloud computing, and machine learning acceleration. Propose solutions to enhance performance and optimize power. Explore, analyze and optimize next-generation data center systems.

The Person:

Do you seek the most sophisticated challenges in the computing industry? As a passionate system performance architect on our design engineering team, you will propose and implement solutions to our next generation GPU SoC and data center system application performance issues.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Serve as a Performance Architect in AMD's electronics design engineering team.
  • Participate in microarchitecture exploration, performance modeling, and analysis for next-generation GPU and data center systems.
  • Intimately understand design architecture and propose solutions to enhance performance
  • Responsible for micro-benchmarking, workload characterization, competitive analysis, bottleneck identification, and optimization.
  • Develop tools and methodology for performance analysis of workloads.
  • Communicate, propose, and implement solutions to processor and system performance issues.

Preferred Experience:
  • Experience with GPU, CPU or computer system microarchitecture
  • Experience with the development and usage of computer system performance models
  • Experience with computer workload analysis
  • Strong programming skills, including experience with C++ and Python (or similar)

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
  • PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field of study + 5 years of experience.
  • MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field of study plus 8 years of experience as a Computer Architect, Design Engineer, or in a closely related processor design role
  • Bachelors plus 12 years of relevant experience.

Academic Credentials:
  • Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a closely related field
  • Masters or PhD with emphasis on Computer Architecture performance studies preferred

Location:

Austin TX preferred; Santa Clara, CA

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
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
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