CPU Power & Performance Validation Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Folsom, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The CPU Power & Performance Validation Engineer will be a key contributor to AMD’s latest-generation silicon, working within a Core Validation team focused on delivering industry-leading performance and power. This role provides the opportunity to work hands-on with silicon, benchmarks, workloads, power and thermal equipment, and performance data to understand how products are operating and ensure they meet performance targets. The engineer will collaborate closely with design and engineering teams to understand specifications and workload requirements, investigate performance and power issues, identify corner cases, validate workarounds, and fine-tune product performance. This is an opportunity to directly influence the performance of AMD products while working on complex, highly visible technical challenges.

Requirements

Strong technical curiosity, collaboration, ownership, and the ability to operate independently at a senior technical level.
Comfortable incorporating AI tools into their engineering workflow to accelerate automation, analyze data, and support technical debugging.

Nice To Haves

Strong experience with CPU or silicon performance and power validation, including performance-at-power analysis.
Knowledge of power management features and their impact on system performance and power.
Experience executing benchmarks, analyzing results, identifying performance gaps, and debugging complex silicon or system-level issues.
Hands-on experience with performance, power, and thermal equipment such as power analyzers, thermal monitors, thermal equipment, and chillers.
Strong Python scripting and automation skills.
Experience building automation for validation workflows, hardware equipment, or configuration files.
Understanding of CPU architecture is highly desired.
Knowledge of BIOS and firmware interactions is desired.
Experience with benchmark development is a plus.
Experience identifying technical corner cases and working cross-functionally with design and engineering teams to drive issues toward resolution.
Comfort using AI-assisted engineering tools for automation, data analysis, and technical debugging.

Responsibilities

Validate Core IP for performance and power accuracy against product specifications and performance targets.
Execute benchmarks and workloads to evaluate silicon performance and power behavior.
Identify, investigate, and debug performance and power issues, including complex corner cases.
Partner with design teams to understand specifications, technical requirements, and expected workload behavior.
Develop and execute validation approaches to confirm fixes and workarounds and fine-tune performance toward targeted results.
Develop and maintain Python-based scripting and automation supporting validation, hardware equipment, and configuration workflows.
Use performance, power, thermal, and monitoring equipment to characterize and validate silicon behavior.
Apply AI tools appropriately to accelerate automation development, analyze validation data, and help identify potential directions during technical debugging.
Within the first 30 days, ramp on the team’s methodologies, workloads, tools, and performance-validation execution processes.
Within 60 days, become an independent contributor operating alongside the senior engineers on the team.
Within the first 90 days, contribute fully by independently identifying issues and corner cases, executing validation activities, and communicating product findings and results.