Lead Enterprise CPU & Database Performance Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking an end‑to‑end performance engineer to own enterprise and database workloads, tuning full software stacks and diagnosing CPU vs storage/network factors.

You will compare AMD EPYC against Intel Xeon, and evaluate Arm platforms entering enterprise use cases, delivering reproducible results with clear, concise communication. The role requires deep profiling, workload taxonomy, and collaboration with architecture and forecasting teams to forecast future

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on performance engineering experience with enterprise or server applications at scale.
• Experience with relational or distributed databases, Java or JVM performance, analytics engines, virtualization or hypervisors.
• Demonstrated ability to tune full software stacks and distinguish CPU limitations from storage, network, runtime and configuration artifacts.
• Strong Linux and system-administration skills, including scripting and repeatable environment setup.
• Experience with profiling tools, hardware performance counters, NUMA analysis and system‑level tuning.
• Clear technical writing and presentation skills, with benchmark fairness and reproducibility.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain an enterprise workload taxonomy spanning database systems, Java, analytics, virtualization and server apps.
• Develop rigorous methods for throughput, latency, scale‑up, scale‑out, consolidation and SLIs.
• Analyze AMD vs Intel performance focusing on core configuration, frequency, power, memory bandwidth and platform setup.
• Evaluate tuning at compiler, JVM, database, kernel and library levels for realistic deployment.
• Use profiling and counters to explain stalls, memory behavior, locks, NUMA placement and network dependencies.
• Measure performance‑per‑watt, consolidation and TCO drivers for density and licensing.
• Translate bottlenecks into architecture and forecast inputs with architecture/forecast teams.
• Maintain runbooks and methodology control for reproducibility and peer review.
• Create deep technical reports and executive content on AMD lead areas and mitigations.
• Support post‑launch analysis and improve future forecasts.

Skills

Enterprise workloads

Performance engineering

Linux

Profiling tools

CPU performance counters

NUMA analysis

Benchmark fairness

Cross‑ISA experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Relational & distributed databases

Java/JVM performance

Analytics engines

Virtualization / hypervisors

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is seeking an end‑to‑end performance engineer to own enterprise and database workloads, tuning full software stacks and diagnosing CPU vs storage/network factors.

You will compare AMD EPYC against Intel Xeon, and evaluate Arm platforms entering enterprise use cases, delivering reproducible results with clear, concise communication. The role requires deep profiling, workload taxonomy, and collaboration with architecture and forecasting teams to forecast future