Senior Pre-Silicon CPU Performance Architect

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking an engineer to build workload-relevant models of future AMD and competitor server platforms before silicon is available.

You will translate disclosures, observed data, and platform observations into explicit assumptions with confidence levels and sensitivity ranges. You will calibrate models with measured silicon, performance counters and telemetry, decompose bottlenecks, and produce diagrams and narratives showing AMD advantages to both

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in CPU microarchitecture, silicon performance, system architecture or performance modeling.
• Strong knowledge of out-of-order pipelines, branch prediction, fetch and decode, execution back ends and simultaneous multithreading behavior.
• Expertise in cache, TLB, coherence, prefetching, memory controllers, NUMA, bandwidth, latency and capacity scaling.
• Experience with hardware performance counters, profiling tools, microbenchmarks, system telemetry and bottleneck analysis.
• Strong quantitative and scripting or data-analysis skills used in performance investigations.
• Ability to reason from incomplete information, make assumptions explicit and show which unknowns can change the conclusion.
• Clear technical writing and visualization skills, with a commitment to configuration control, peer review and reproducibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop workload-relevant models of future AMD and competitor server platforms before silicon is available.
• Convert public disclosures, measured behavior, partner-authorized data and software observations into explicit assumptions with confidence levels and sensitivity ranges.
• Calibrate models using measured silicon, performance counters and platform telemetry.
• Perform bottleneck decomposition that explains why a workload favors AMD or a competitor and which architectural mechanism is responsible.
• Work with workload engineers to create microbenchmarks and kernels that isolate high-value architectural effects.
• Evaluate ISA and acceleration features in the context of real application uplift rather than theoretical peak capability.
• Quantify performance-per-watt, platform power and rack-density implications when architectural choices change system behavior.
• Maintain version-controlled assumptions, sources, revisions and uncertainty so forecasts can be peer reviewed and reproduced.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical narratives and executive-ready content that clearly show causes, risks and areas of AMD advantage.

Skills

CPU microarchitecture

Performance modeling

System architecture

Data analysis

Technical writing

Scripting

Education

Bachelors or Masters in electrical or computer engineering

Tools

Profiling tools

Microbenchmarks

Telemetry tooling

Power modeling tools

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking an engineer to build workload-relevant models of future AMD and competitor server platforms before silicon is available.

You will translate disclosures, observed data, and platform observations into explicit assumptions with confidence levels and sensitivity ranges. You will calibrate models with measured silicon, performance counters and telemetry, decompose bottlenecks, and produce diagrams and narratives showing AMD advantages to both