Post Silicon Power and Performance Staff Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Penang, Malaysia · Engineering

This role focuses on post-silicon power and performance engineering for custom silicon products, ensuring they meet power targets and are optimized for customer use cases. The engineer will collaborate with global teams, develop test plans, execute studies, analyze data, and mentor junior engineers. The role involves improving correlation between pre-silicon projections and post-silicon results, with a focus on CPU, GPU, or APU features.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own power / performance characterization for selected SoC features
  2. Drive cross-site debug with Austin, Penang, and Shanghai teams
  3. Mentor junior engineers in lab setup, analysis workflows, and correlation methods
  4. Deliver insights that influence firmware and architecture decisions
  5. Develop test plans in collaboration with architects, firmware, and IP-specific engineering teams to ensure products meet or exceed performance targets.

Skills

Required

  • power or performance attainment of features of CPU, GPU, or APUs
  • matrixed environment spanning multiple countries and time zones
  • electrical or computer engineering

Nice to have

  • validating power or performance features of CPUs, GPUs, or APUs using automated testflow execution
  • graphics, core, and gaming-focused workloads
  • data acquisition and thermal equipment including accuracy and use in automation
  • debugging complex power management or performance-related attainment issues while interacting with cross-site teams
  • developing automated test procedures
  • working in a fast-paced, matrixed, and multi-site technical organization