Chief CPU Performance & Microarchitecture Strategy

Advanced Micro Devices; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, TX seeks a hands-on performance architect to establish the Advanced Competitive Performance capability. You will set the standard for predicting, validating and communicating future server CPU competitiveness across x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator platforms.

This senior technical leadership role combines microarchitectural insight with quantitative modeling and executive storytelling.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior technical leadership in CPU or system performance.
• Turn low-level performance evidence into architecture, platform or product decisions.
• Deep understanding of CPU pipelines, cache and memory hierarchies, NUMA, I/O and cross-ISA effects.
• Strong written and verbal communication for executive audiences.
• Experience working across architecture, software, platform, product, field or customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy, workload priorities and operating rhythm for AMD competitive CPU performance forecasting.
• Own the predict-validate-translate cycle: workload taxonomy, architecture and platform assumptions, forecast ranges, validation, model tuning and business translation.
• Lead reviews of assumptions covering CPU cores, cache and memory hierarchies, I/O, power, platform behavior, software stacks and workload scaling.
• Establish a review discipline that distinguishes measured results, sourced assumptions, modeled inference and uncertainty.
• Integrate x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator analyses into one decision-ready view of competitive risks and expected AMD advantage.
• Deliver concise executive readouts that explain expected position, confidence, key drivers and recommended actions.
• Partner with architecture, product and software teams to translate evidence into feature and platform recommendations.
• Set standards for fair benchmarking, configuration control, partner validation, data provenance, clean-room governance and forecast-versus-actual learning.

Skills

CPU performance

System architecture

Performance modeling

Executive communication

Cross-stakeholder collaboration

Education

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

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, TX seeks a hands-on performance architect to establish the Advanced Competitive Performance capability. You will set the standard for predicting, validating and communicating future server CPU competitiveness across x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator platforms.

This senior technical leadership role combines microarchitectural insight with quantitative modeling and executive storytelling.