Senior Performance Software Engineer - Benchmarks

Advanced Micro Devices; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks a senior software engineer specialized in performance benchmarking and automation. You will join a core team working with AMD hardware and software platforms to evaluate and optimize performance using real-world workloads and industry benchmarks.

You will drive automated benchmarking pipelines across Windows, Linux, and macOS, developing cross-platform solutions and instrumentation to translate data into actionable insights for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong OO programming background with C/C++/C# preferred.
• Experience across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Experience with concurrent programming, threading models, and synchronization primitives.
• Proficiency with debugging, profiling, and Git-based source control.
• Experience writing microbenchmarks and automating real-world applications.

Responsibilities

• Benchmarking & workloads: develop and maintain automated benchmarking workflows using applications to evaluate CPU, GPU, memory and storage performance.
• Automation & infrastructure: build and maintain automation frameworks for workload execution, result collection, and analysis.
• Cross-platform development: create and maintain cross-platform solutions for Windows, Windows on ARM, macOS, and Linux.
• Performance analysis & hardware collaboration: debug performance issues with hardware teams and provide instrumentation hooks.

Skills

C/C++/C#

OO programming

Debugging

Concurrency

Git

Qt/.NET

Cross-platform

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Git

Debuggers

Profilers

QT

NET

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks a senior software engineer specialized in performance benchmarking and automation. You will join a core team working with AMD hardware and software platforms to evaluate and optimize performance using real-world workloads and industry benchmarks.

You will drive automated benchmarking pipelines across Windows, Linux, and macOS, developing cross-platform solutions and instrumentation to translate data into actionable insights for stakeholders.