Senior GPU Performance Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • Santa Clara, CA

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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.

AMD GPUs power the next generation of AI and high-performance computing. Achieving sustained leadership requires architectural thinking that spans hardware, compiler, runtime, and application layers.
We are seeking a Senior Performance Architect to define and drive cross-architecture performance strategy for AI workloads on AMD GPU platforms.
This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for shaping long-term performance architecture and influencing both software and hardware direction.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in GPU performance optimization
• Strong understanding of GPU microarchitecture
• Experience working with compiler toolchains (LLVM or similar)
• Proven track record of architectural decision-making
• Strong C++ background

Nice To Haves

• Experience spanning multiple GPU generations
• Experience contributing to GPU compiler infrastructure
• Experience with AI workload optimization at scale
• Open-source or industry thought leadership contributions

Responsibilities

• Define optimization principles that span GPU generations
• Identify architectural invariants and portability constraints
• Evaluate tradeoffs between peak performance and maintainability
• Guide kernel tiling, scheduling, and memory strategies
• Influence compiler scheduling and code generation decisions
• Analyze ISA-level behavior and performance implications
• Architect performance-aware abstraction layers
• Ensure clean separation of architecture-dependent components
• Drive long-term maintainability of performance-critical systems
• Lead architectural design reviews
• Mentor performance engineers
• Represent AMD in high-level technical discussions
• Build mental and quantitative performance models
• Predict workload scaling behavior
• Identify bottlenecks before profiling

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level