Staff Software Performance Engineer

At AMD, the mission is to build products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences across AI, data centers, PCs, gaming, and embedded systems. The company emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and solving important challenges with a culture that values execution excellence and diverse perspectives.

• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform
• Deep knowledge of C/C++ programming
• Experience using CPU profilers such as vTune, WPA, MSVS Performance Profiler
• Knowledge of SIMD instructions such as SSE, AVX, NEON
• Knowledge of modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
• Knowledge of CPU architecture
• Familiarity with modern source version control such as Git, Mercurial
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with partners effectively
• Self-starter, passionate about performance

Bonus:

• Experience developing highly parallel applications and algorithms

• Experience with power/performance tuning

• Knowledge of modern compiler toolchains and optimizations

• Knowledge of x86/x64 assembly language and special instructions

• Knowledge of interpreted languages such as Python and JavaScript

• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments

• Academic Credentials: At least a BS/MS in computer science, computer engineering or a related field

• Identify and analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance, finding performance bottlenecks
• Use all available tools and/or source code to determine the nature of the identified bottleneck
• Design solutions or workarounds to mitigate identified bottlenecks
• Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work and promote these to software vendors
• Contribute performance improvements to open-source projects and identify other applications that may benefit
• Develop technical relationships with peers at partner software vendors
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially in algorithms and architecture
• Be a specialist in the performance characteristics of mainstream CPUs
• Some travel may be involved to visit partners for co-engineering efforts and education

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