Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Senior Manager, AI Power & Performance Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in software engineering or system performance roles, particularly in Edge physical AI or embedded platforms
  • Proven leadership experience in managing technical teams and driving complex projects
  • Expertise in Power and Power PnP activities for both Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon
  • In-depth knowledge of AI/ML frameworks and performance optimization strategies
  • Experience with heterogeneous computing involving CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
  • Strong communication and organizational skills for effective team leadership

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement the AI power and performance strategy across multiple computing platforms
  • Establish benchmarking methodologies and performance KPIs for thorough competitive analysis
  • Drive performance optimization across a variety of AI models and software stacks
  • Identify and influence key performance bottlenecks through data analysis
  • Lead efforts to ensure AI solutions are market-ready across various industries
  • Create performance documentation and competitive positioning data for customer readiness
  • Mentor and develop a high-performing engineering team while promoting a culture of innovation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare and wellness programs
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
  • Flexible work arrangements with hybrid options
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and resources
  • Collaborative and innovative work culture
Full Job Description
Role Overview

The Senior Manager, AI Power & Performance (AI PnP) will lead a team responsible for delivering industry-leading AI performance, power efficiency, benchmarking, characterization, and optimization across AMD's Embedded and Edge AI platforms. This leader will partner closely with architecture, software, silicon, product management, marketing, and customer-facing teams to ensure AMD solutions achieve competitive leadership in AI workloads spanning Robotics, Physical AI, Automotive, Industrial, and Edge Computing.

Success Metrics
  • Performance-per-watt leadership against competitive solutions.
  • AI workload enablement and optimization coverage across strategic platforms.
  • Customer adoption and design-win support effectiveness.
  • Engineering productivity improvements through automation and tooling.
  • Delivery of trusted, reproducible, customer-ready performance data.
  • Successful execution of roadmap commitments and organizational growth.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership
  • Define and execute AI power and performance strategy across AMD CPU, GPU, NPU, and heterogeneous computing platforms.
  • Establish benchmarking methodologies, performance KPIs, competitive analysis frameworks, and workload characterization processes.
  • Drive performance optimization across AI models, runtimes, kernels, frameworks, and system software stacks.
  • Identify bottlenecks and influence hardware, firmware, runtime, and software roadmap decisions through data-driven analysis.

Product and Solution Enablement
  • Lead performance readiness for AI solutions across Robotics, Physical AI, Automotive, Industrial, and Edge AI markets.
  • Develop customer-ready performance collateral, benchmarking reports, tuning recommendations, and competitive positioning data.
  • Partner with software engineering teams to validate AI models, inference pipelines, SDKs, frameworks, and application workloads.
  • Ensure performance scalability, efficiency, reliability, and production readiness across deployed solutions.

Team Leadership
  • Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing global engineering organization consisting of AI performance, benchmarking, and automation engineers.
  • Establish clear goals, execution plans, staffing strategies, and career development programs.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, technical excellence, and customer obsession.

Customer and Cross-Functional Engagement
  • Support strategic customer engagements, design-win efforts, technical escalations, and performance-related discussions.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, Marketing, and Field Engineering teams to define and execute winning AI platform strategies.
  • Represent AMD performance leadership in executive reviews, customer meetings, and industry engagements.

Automation and Infrastructure
  • Drive development of scalable benchmarking, automation, telemetry, profiling, and analytics infrastructure.
  • Establish continuous performance validation frameworks and dashboards for workload tracking and regression analysis.
  • Improve engineering efficiency through CI/CD integration and automated performance qualification systems.

Required Qualifications
  • Proven experience in software engineering, system performance, Edge physical AI, embedded platforms, or related domains.
  • Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical programs.
  • Proven experience in Power and Power PnP activities Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon & Correlation
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks, inference runtimes, and performance optimization techniques.
  • Experience with heterogeneous computing architectures involving CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and accelerators.
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with AMD AI technologies including ROCm, Ryzen AI, ONNX Runtime, MIGraphX, or other AI software stacks.
  • Experience in Robotics, Physical AI, Automotive, Industrial, or Edge AI markets.
  • Familiarity with generative AI, multimodal AI, computer vision, and robotics workloads.
  • Knowledge of AI benchmarking, profiling tools, performance analysis, and power optimization techniques.
  • Experience working with geographically distributed engineering organizations.

Academic Credentials
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.


This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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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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