Power Architect – SOC Firmware and Algorithms
About The Position
At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. We are seeking a technical leader with a strong passion for power architecture to join the SoC Architecture team within AMD’s Computing and Graphics group. In this role, power architects shape the direction of next‑generation SoCs—from early concept and definition through design execution and post‑silicon validation. You will collaborate closely with a wide range of teams, including SoC architecture, IP design, integration and physical design, platform architecture, software, firmware, packaging, and silicon validation. If you’re driven to innovate and elevate power efficiency, performance, and battery life for AMD’s client and handheld products, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. You need to have excellent problem solving, communication and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc. Highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you.
Requirements
- Experience in profiling software workloads on CPU and GPU
- Experience in defining new software interfaces to optimize hardware performance.
- Experience in profiling power and performance benchmarks
- Prior algorithm development in C or Python.
- Experience in system and SoC control firmware/software.
- Experience in ACPI and UEFI
- Demonstrated expertise in system and SOC power optimization techniques
- Experience with RTOS and bare-metal firmware.
- Experience with Software tracing, firmware debug and activity profiling.
- Clear methodical problem solver.
- Ability to work independently and lead a world-wide team.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal skills
- PhD or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics.
- Several years of relevant experience
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Prior Matlab Experience is preferred
Responsibilities
- Author new Power Algorithms and Software Features. Utilize latest ML techniques to optimize CPU, GPU power and performance
- Create new software interfaces to optimize hardware behavior
- Develop new firmware by prototyping complex power control algorithms across SoC roadmap
- Profile emerging benchmarks on LLM or NN workloads running on Client products to optimize power in active states by tuning algorithms
- Implement and optimize control software and features to ensure power objectives and goals are met
- Create innovative power reduction initiatives and methodologies and drive cross-organization alignment with product teams for implementation towards power convergence.
- Work closely with world-wide design teams on the implementation, verification, and review of power management solutions.
- Optimize PC use cases in terms of absolute power and also in relative performance per watt.
- Must be hands on with development boards and flashing new firmware to checkout power and performance.
Benefits
- AMD benefits at a glance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
