CPU Performance Engineer — SIMD/LLVM Optimizations (Remote)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is hiring a PMTS Software Development Engineer to identify and analyze performance bottlenecks in application performance, using all available tools and code to determine bottlenecks and design solutions.

You will work with AMD architecture specialists to improve future products and promote efficient approaches to software vendors. The role requires five years of experience, a Master’s or equivalent degree in CS/CE/EE or related field, and strong skills in

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role.
• Shipped code with SIMD intrinsics such as AVX512.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform.
• C or C++ programming.
• Investigating compiler code generation, such as LLVM auto-vectorization.
• Modern concurrent programming and threading APIs.
• CPU architecture knowledge.
• Version control with Git or Mercurial.
• Developing highly parallel applications and algorithms.
• Power or performance tuning.
• x86/x64 assembly language.
• Python and JavaScript exposure.
• Compiler development experience.
• Performance optimization or ISA optimization.
• WebAssembly or Web standards development.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance and bottlenecks.
• Use tools or source code to determine bottleneck nature and design mitigations.
• Collaborate with architecture specialists to improve future products.
• Apply data-driven approaches to target optimization efforts.
• Research alternatives to achieve efficiency and promote them to software vendors.
• Develop technical relationships with partner software vendors.
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends, especially algorithms and architecture.
• Contribute performance improvements to open source projects.
• Travel to partner sites for co-engineering efforts as needed.

Skills

SIMD intrinsics (AVX512)

Performance bottlenecks

C or C++ programming

LLVM auto-vectorization

Modern concurrent programming

CPU architecture

Git or Mercurial

Parallel algorithms

Power/performance tuning

x86/x64 assembly

Python and JavaScript

Compiler development

ISA optimization

WebAssembly/Web standards

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering or related field

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Git

Mercurial

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is hiring a PMTS Software Development Engineer to identify and analyze performance bottlenecks in application performance, using all available tools and code to determine bottlenecks and design solutions.

You will work with AMD architecture specialists to improve future products and promote efficient approaches to software vendors. The role requires five years of experience, a Master’s or equivalent degree in CS/CE/EE or related field, and strong skills in