Software Performance Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Warsaw, Poland · Engineering

Software Performance Engineer at AMD focused on improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks by building and maintaining automation, writing hardware-aware workloads, and developing cross-platform code. The role involves performance optimization and analysis across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and other devices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and maintain automation and orchestration code for running workloads and collecting results
  2. Write hardware aware workloads that exercise CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and other devices
  3. Develop cross platform code supporting Windows, Windows on ARM, and macOS
  4. Integrate application code, scripts, and platform specific tools
  5. Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
  6. Improve reliability, observability, and repeatability of automated runs

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • C++
  • C#
  • Windows automation experience: Batch scripting (bat) and PowerShell
  • Experience with profilers like vTune, uprof, WPA and performance optimization
  • Familiarity with instruction sets such as SSE / AVX

Nice to have

  • Browser experience (automation, scripting, tooling, or performance analysis)
  • Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
  • Experience with Windows, Linux and/or Android operating system development
  • Experience validating behavior or performance across platforms or architectures
  • Experience in writing microbenchmarks to measure performance characteristics of a CPU/SOC.
  • Understanding of system architecture concepts: CPU/GPU/NPU execution, Memory hierarchy and I/O behavior, etc.

What the JD emphasized

  • hardware aware workloads
  • Windows, Windows on ARM, and macOS
  • profilers like vTune, uprof, WPA and performance optimization