Senior CPU Performance & Microarchitecture Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Design Engineer to contribute to CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis. You will work with a small team of hardware and software engineers to optimize core performance and expand into cycle-accurate simulation and model correlation.

This role offers opportunities to advance CPU work across RTL and performance modeling, workload analysis, and collaboration with product teams on high-performance computing solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with C++ programming and scripting languages.
• Background in computer architecture through coursework or work experience.
• Cycle-accurate microarchitecture simulator development.
• Pre-silicon performance analysis.
• Computing software, including operating systems, compilers, and applications.
• Publications or filed patents that contribute to the industry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a small, dedicated team of hardware and software engineers to optimize the performance of CPU microarchitecture.
• Expand experience with cycle-accurate core microarchitecture performance simulator development, workload and trace analysis, microarchitecture development, RTL vs performance model correlation.

Skills

C++ programming

Scripting

Computer architecture

Cycle-accurate simulator

Pre-silicon analysis

OS & compilers

Publications/Patents

Education

Bachelors/Masters/PhD in CS/EE

Job description

AMD in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Design Engineer to contribute to CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis. You will work with a small team of hardware and software engineers to optimize core performance and expand into cycle-accurate simulation and model correlation.

This role offers opportunities to advance CPU work across RTL and performance modeling, workload analysis, and collaboration with product teams on high-performance computing solutions.