Power and Performance Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India · Engineering

AMD is looking for a Power and Performance Engineer to drive next-generation power architecture, firmware, algorithms, and software interfaces across AMD client and handheld SoCs. This role involves defining power-management architecture, collaborating with various teams, and optimizing power efficiency, performance-per-watt, and battery life. The ideal candidate will have strong technical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with experience in profiling, tuning, and algorithm development for complex datasets, as well as system and SoC control firmware.

What you'd actually do

  1. Algorithm, Firmware & Software Interface Architecture
  2. Performance & Workload Optimization
  3. System‑Level Power Architecture
  4. Hands‑On Engineering

Skills

Required

  • PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field
  • 8+ years of industry experience
  • Experience profiling software workloads on CPUs and GPUs
  • Knowledge of defining low‑level software interfaces to influence hardware performance and power behavior
  • Background in SOC hardware design, clock distribution, power delivery and performance
  • Experience profiling and tuning hardware/software stacks to achieve power and performance efficiency on benchmark workloads
  • Prior algorithm development in C or Python
  • Expertise in algorithm development for predictive systems using regression and classification frameworks for complex datasets
  • Experience with system and SoC control firmware, including RTOS and bare‑metal development
  • Analyze power modeling results and use these to drive design teams towards best practices for reducing power
  • Familiarity with ACPI, UEFI, and platform‑level power management frameworks
  • Demonstrated expertise in system and SoC power optimization techniques
  • Experience with software tracing, firmware debugging, and activity profiling tools
  • Windows OS and kernel‑level knowledge, including power frameworks, drivers, and system activity tracing
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • ability to lead and influence teams across geographies
  • Clear, methodical problem solver comfortable driving complex initiatives independently

Nice to have

  • MATLAB experience preferred