Senior Competitive CPU Performance Architect

AMD; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AMD Benefits

Job summary

AMD in Austin, Texas is seeking a hands-on technical leader and 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 is a technical-authority role requiring deep CPU architecture knowledge and the ability to translate evidence into timely decisions while delivering concise executive readouts for senior

Qualifications

• Led senior technical initiatives in CPU/system performance.
• Turned performance evidence into architectural decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication for senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy, workload priorities, and forecasting cadence.
• Own the predict-validate-translate cycle across architectures and platforms.
• Lead reviews of cores, cache, memory, I/O, and power assumptions.
• Create decision-ready views of risks and advantages.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, and software teams.

Skills

Senior leadership

CPU performance modeling

Benchmarking

Cross-ISA analysis

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in electrical/computer engineering

Tools

Architectural simulators

CPU performance counters

Telemetry data analysis

Job description

AMD in Austin, Texas is seeking a hands-on technical leader and 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 is a technical-authority role requiring deep CPU architecture knowledge and the ability to translate evidence into timely decisions while delivering concise executive readouts for senior