Sr Competitive Performance Engineer-GPU

At AMD, the mission is to build products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences including AI, data centers, PCs, gaming, and embedded systems. The company emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and a culture that values bold ideas and diverse perspectives.

• Outstanding foundation in GPU architecture and performance
• Experience analyzing microarchitectural and system-level behavior to explain performance differences across real workloads
• Strong understanding of power and efficiency tradeoffs, including architectural and system-level implications
• Demonstrated experience performing or consuming competitive benchmarking, reverse engineering, or architectural comparison studies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting complex technical content to senior technical and business audiences
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across globally distributed teams and influence without direct authority

Key responsibilities:

• Lead data center GPU performance architecture and system-level analysis including silicon, firmware, and software stacks
• Analyze competitor performance, power, efficiency, scalability, and cost tradeoffs across key workloads and customer use cases
• Develop and maintain models, benchmarks, and comparison frameworks to support internal performance analysis and tradeoffs
• Work cross-functionally with architecture, design, performance, software, and product teams to identify competitive gaps, risks, and opportunities
• Influence feature prioritization, architectural tradeoffs, and roadmap decisions
• Define and implement new performance features and optimizations
• Translate deep technical analysis into clear, executive-ready insights for strategy, marketing, and leadership reviews
• Support marketing and business teams by providing technical validation and context for competitive positioning, messaging, and customer engagements
• Drive knowledge sharing across the organization through presentations, reviews, and internal documentation
• Mentor engineers and analysts in competitive methodology, benchmarking rigor, and systems thinking

AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and consider all applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics. AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy.