Senior CPU Performance Architect & Forecasting Lead

AMD; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a hands-on technical leader and architect to establish the Advanced Competitive Performance capability in Austin. You will set the standard for predicting, validating and communicating future server CPU competitiveness across x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator platforms.

You will challenge architecture and workload assumptions, quantify uncertainty and turn complex evidence into timely decisions, delivering clear executive readouts and actionable guidance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior technical leadership in CPU or system performance.
• Record of turning low-level performance evidence into decisions.
• Deep understanding of CPU pipelines, caches, NUMA, memory bandwidth and I/O.
• Strong experimental design, benchmarking fairness and reproducibility.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy and workload priorities for CPU performance forecasting.
• Own the predict-validate-translate cycle: architecture and platform assumptions, forecast ranges and model tuning.
• Lead reviews of assumptions covering cores, cache and memory hierarchies, I/O, power, platform behavior.
• Establish a review discipline for measured results, modeled inference and uncertainty.
• Integrate x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator analyses into a single decision-ready view.
• Deliver concise executive readouts explaining position, drivers and actions.
• Partner with architecture, product and software teams to translate evidence into recommendations.
• Set standards for fair benchmarking, configuration control and data provenance.

Skills

CPU performance

System architecture

Performance modeling

Executive communication

Benchmarking

Cross-ISA analysis

Education

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

Tools

Architectural simulators

Performance counters

Telemetry

Job description

AMD is seeking a hands-on technical leader and architect to establish the Advanced Competitive Performance capability in Austin. You will set the standard for predicting, validating and communicating future server CPU competitiveness across x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator platforms.

You will challenge architecture and workload assumptions, quantify uncertainty and turn complex evidence into timely decisions, delivering clear executive readouts and actionable guidance.