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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. **
THE ROLE:
As a CPU Core Performance Engineer, you will have a unique opportunity to architect, design and model performance features in AMD’s next-generation CPU core. You will work in the center of an experienced, skilled, and motivated engineering team with a track record of success. As a member of the CPU Core performance team, you will work on the leading edge of processor technology to define CPU Architecture and collaborate with RTL design, Verification and Post-Silicon teams to make AMD’s ambitious future CPU roadmap a reality.
THE PERSON:
You approach challenges relentlessly with both critical thinking and creativity. You work as part of a team with strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills. You have a solid understanding of modern CPU architecture, a solid track-record delivering complex performance features for modern CPU cores and have ideas and a drive to make it even better. Does this describe you? If so, then join us!
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Architecture, design and modeling of high-performance CPU core features working on CPU core performance simulator.
Correlation of performance features across performance simulator and actual CPU processor design in a pre-silicon simulation, emulation as well as post-silicon setting.
Innovate technical ideas related to CPU architecture through CPU performance modeling ideas and techniques:
Lead team, meet schedule commitments and provide strong support to various customers related to performance modeling and correlation.
Collaborate with multi-functional teams and technical leads across RTL, Verification, emulation and silicon to drive AMD's success in CPUs used across a variety of market segments.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- A strong technical contributor with CPU architecture and performance modeling background and strong problem-solving skills.
- Prior experience and proven track-record in modeling of modern CPU cores performance features in one or more areas of the processor pipeline.
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills including the ability to analyze current processor behavior, identify potential areas for improvement and design of experiments and performance studies leading to new performance features and improvements.
- Proven experience solving hard engineering problems related to CPU core architecture and micro-architecture from feature ideation to modeling and all the way to productization of CPU core performance features.
- Strong processor architecture and software engineering background, including use of AI tools and methods to design, test and optimize code used in performance modeling.
- A strong technical contributor with experience working with a distributed team across time zones.
- Strong mentoring, coaching and technical leadership skills.
- Strong communications skills. Able to summarize complex problems for team leaders and architects as well as drill down to details with engineers.
- Generates publication(s) relevant to areas of expertise and is capable of presenting at technical conferences.
- Must be a self-starter and self-motivated and perform work with little supervision.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering
LOCATION:
Austin, TX
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