SOC Performance Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX
•Onsite
About The Position
The successful candidate will work in AMD's Client and Graphics SOC Performance Team in Austin, Texas. The team’s mandate is to analyze and optimize the architectural performance of AMD’s PC and Gaming processors. This role will involve analyzing and tracing key CPU, Graphics and AI workloads, performance modeling of internal and competitive hardware platforms, debugging SOC performance issues and the development of performance evaluation tools and methodologies.
Requirements
- You have a passion for leading edge SoC architecture, design and verification.
- You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and enjoys collaborating with architects & engineers located in different sites and time-zones.
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.
- Proficient in C/C++ programming and software engineering concepts
Nice To Haves
- Prior industry/academic experience
- Experience with computer architecture, system simulation, and performance evaluation
- Experience analyzing system bottlenecks and optimizing computing systems for performance
- Strong experience with computing software, including operating systems, hypervisors, compilers, drivers, and workloads
- Adept at mathematical and statistical modeling
- Detailed microarchitecture knowledge of a CPU, GPU, NPU, Video Processors, and/or DRAM controllers
Responsibilities
- Work with IP and SOC architects to develop and optimize leading edge processors
- Characterize workloads, project performance and debug performance issues
- Run performance simulations and analyze results to evaluate architectural features
- Analyze the competition and identify areas for future improvement
- Enhance existing application tracing techniques
- Develop and maintain tools for data collection and analysis
- Execute post-silicon debug/tuning efforts to ensure AMD processors are fully performance optimized
- Job responsibilities also include multi-discipline interactions with microprocessor architects, ISA definition owners, software optimizers, compiler team, logic designers, and verification engineers to identify, resolve and document architectural performance issues
Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
