Senior AI Performance Engineer - Systems & Benchmarking

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Austin seeks a Senior AI Systems Performance Engineer to lead benchmarking and performance characterization of AI workloads across embedded and client platforms.

You will design methodologies, analyze bottlenecks, and deliver strategic recommendations influencing silicon utilization and product direction. The role requires deep AI software knowledge, strong hardware and system-level expertise, and the ability to communicate findings to executives, product teams,

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of AI inference workloads and performance optimization techniques.
• Strong hands-on experience with AI frameworks such as PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, vLLM, TensorFlow, ROCm, Ryzen AI, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI workload benchmarking and performance characterization efforts across AMD AI-enabled embedded and client platforms.
• Design and maintain scalable benchmarking infrastructure, automated performance dashboards, and workload analysis methodologies.
• Drive deep root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks across software, firmware, operating system, silicon, memory, and platform layers.
• Utilize advanced profiling and tracing tools to characterize AI workload behaviour and identify optimization opportunities.
• Analyze power, performance, throughput, latency, and efficiency tradeoffs across diverse AI deployments.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, firmware, software, platform, and product teams to influence optimization strategies and future product direction.
• Provide actionable performance insights to engineering leadership, business teams, product planning organizations, and external partners.
• Support customer-facing performance investigations and technical engagements when required.
• Develop performance evaluation methodologies used for competitive analysis and business strategy.
• Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices across the AI performance engineering organization.

Education

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

Tools

PyTorch

ONNX Runtime

vLLM

TensorFlow

ROCm

Ryzen AI

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Austin seeks a Senior AI Systems Performance Engineer to lead benchmarking and performance characterization of AI workloads across embedded and client platforms.

You will design methodologies, analyze bottlenecks, and deliver strategic recommendations influencing silicon utilization and product direction. The role requires deep AI software knowledge, strong hardware and system-level expertise, and the ability to communicate findings to executives, product teams,