[Hiring] Software Performance Engineer @Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Role Description

AMD is looking for a specialized software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

Qualifications

• Passionate about software engineering
• Possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution
• Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD

Requirements

• Build and maintain automation and orchestration code for running workloads and collecting results
• Write hardware aware workloads that exercise CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and other devices
• Develop cross platform code supporting Windows, Windows on ARM, and macOS
• Integrate application code, scripts, and platform specific tools
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
• Improve reliability, observability, and repeatability of automated runs
• Collaborate using Git
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners

Preferred Experience

• Experience in one or more languages such as Python, C++, or 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
• 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.

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance