AI Systems Performance Engineer

AMD; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking an AI Systems Power and Performance Engineer to evaluate and optimize AI workloads on embedded and client platforms. You will work at the intersection of AI software and hardware, delivering data-driven insights that influence product development and customer success.

You will collaborate with AI software teams and platform engineers to characterize workloads, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems knowledge and command-line proficiency.
• Experience with performance profiling, workload tracing, and system analysis tools.
• Knowledge of AI frameworks and models is a plus.
• Familiarity with hardware-software interactions (CPU/GPU/Memory).

Responsibilities

• Benchmark and characterize AI inference workloads across AMD embedded and client platforms.
• Execute performance, power, and efficiency analysis of AI workloads including LLMs, VLMs, and CV use cases.
• Develop and maintain automated benchmarking environments and performance dashboards.
• Configure and optimize AI workload execution environments using standard frameworks and runtimes.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret system-level performance traces.
• Investigate bottlenecks in compute, memory bandwidth, latency, and resources.
• Collaborate with software, firmware, architecture, and platform teams for optimization.
• Support benchmarking methodologies for competitive analysis and product evaluation.
• Generate data-driven reports and present findings to engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Linux

Profiling

Python

Shell scripting

Automation

Performance analysis

CPU/GPU/Memory

BIOS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

As a member of AMD's AI Systems Power and Performance Engineering team, you will play a critical role in evaluating and optimizing the performance of next-generation AI workloads on AMD embedded and client platforms. Working at the intersection of AI software, hardware architecture, and system performance, you will help deliver data-driven insights that influence product development, competitive positioning, and customer success.

You will collaborate with AI software teams, architects, firmware developers, platform engineers, product planners, and business stakeholders to characterize AI workloads, identify performance bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvements across AMD's AI-enabled products

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate is passionate about AI technologies and system performance. You enjoy understanding how modern AI workloads interact with hardware and software systems and are naturally curious when investigating performance anomalies.

You are comfortable working in Linux environments, analyzing workload behavior, and leveraging profiling tools to understand system-level bottlenecks. You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy translating complex technical findings into actionable insights for engineering teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Benchmark and characterize AI inference workloads across AMD embedded and client platforms.
• Execute performance, power, and efficiency analysis of modern AI workloads, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision Language Models (VLMs), computer vision applications, and emerging AI use cases.
• Develop and maintain automated benchmarking environments and performance dashboards.
• Configure and optimize AI workload execution environments using industry-standard frameworks and runtimes.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret system-level performance traces using hardware and software profiling tools.
• Investigate workload bottlenecks involving compute, memory bandwidth, latency, and system resource utilization.
• Work closely with software, firmware, architecture, and platform teams to support performance analysis and optimization activities.
• Support the development of benchmarking methodologies used for competitive analysis and product evaluation.
• Generate data-driven reports and present findings to engineering stakeholders.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with AI inference frameworks such as PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, TensorFlow, vLLM, llama.cpp, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with modern AI model architectures including LLMs, VLMs, CNNs, and Vision Transformer (ViT) workloads.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience working in command-line environments.
• Experience with performance profiling, workload tracing, and system analysis tools.
• Understanding of CPU, GPU, NPU, memory, and system-level performance interactions.
• Experience with Python, Shell scripting, or automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of AMD, x86, ARM, or embedded computing platforms is highly desirable.
• Understanding of power and performance optimization methodologies.
• Familiarity with BIOS configuration and system bring-up activities is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.