Lead Performance Engineer

AMD; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in Bengaluru, India seeks a Lead Performance Engineer to drive EPYC server processor performance across cloud, data center, HPC, ML, and AI workloads.

You will lead post‑silicon performance bring‑up, analysis, and tuning—from silicon to system level—while mentoring a team and collaborating with design, architecture, and firmware teams to deliver robust, scalable performance.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in CPU core, memory, storage and I/O subsystems.
• Experience in driving Server SoC post silicon projects.
• Power user of performance profiling and hardware performance counter tools.
• Familiarity with complex cloud or enterprise software and benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance bring‑up, characterization, and tuning of new silicon for server workloads.
• Drive root‑cause analysis of performance, power, and stability issues during post‑silicon evaluations.
• Define and execute post‑silicon performance debug strategies across workloads.
• Mentor and guide a team of post‑silicon engineers.

Skills

CPU core

Memory subsystems

Performance profiling

Data analysis

Python

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/EE

Tools

SPEC CPU

SPECjbb15

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.

Lead Performance Engineer

THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for an outstanding technical leader to drive performance of AMD EPYC Server processors to the next level. Performance analysis of cloud, enterprise, HPC, Machine Learning, and AI headnode workloads from a SoC performance architecture perspective.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead performance bring‑up, characterization, and tuning of new silicon for complex server and data‑center workloads across CPU, memory, and interconnect subsystems.
• Drive root‑cause analysis of performance, power, and stability issues during post‑silicon performance evaluations, working closely with design, architecture, and firmware teams.
• Define and execute post‑silicon performance debug strategies, including workload enablement, bottleneck analysis, and silicon vs. model correlation.
• System and micro-architecture level performance debugs and resolve silicon-level performance and power observations/discrepancies in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Mentor and guide a team of post‑silicon engineers, setting technical direction, best practices, and execution standards.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Strong foundation in CPU core, memory, storage and I/O subsystems
• Experience in driving Server SoC post silicon projects.
• Power user of performance profiling and hardware performance counter tools
• Familiarity with complex cloud or enterprise software such as database, data analytics, machine learning, and relevant benchmarks such as SPECCPU, SPECjbb15, etc.
• Good knowledge of operating systems concepts (e.g. scheduling, memory management, paging, interrupt handling, etc
• Good programming skills
• Excellent Data analysis skills (Excel or Python)

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