Chief Competitive Performance & Microarchitecture Analysis

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.