Staff GPU Profiling & Performance Engineer

AMD; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD seeks an influential software engineer to improve performance profiling for AMD GPUs. You will join a core team working with architecture, driver, and runtime groups on Pre Silicon and Post Silicon activities, shaping profiling tools and APIs for AI and HPC workloads.

You should be passionate about software engineering, with leadership abilities to drive complex issues to resolution and communicate effectively across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and OO programming.
• Experience with performance analysis tools or profiling frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architecture, driver, and runtime teams to enable profiling for next-generation AMD GPUs.
• Create test tools, test plans, and automated scripts with AI assistance to validate silicon features.
• Design, develop, and maintain ROCprofiler-SDK components for GPU profiling.
• Implement new features and APIs to enhance profiling for AI and HPC workloads.
• Optimize profiling tools for accuracy, scalability, and minimal overhead.
• Debug profiling workflows and improve tool reliability.
• Support hardware bring-up and profiling for new ASICs.
• Stay current with GPU architecture advances and integrate them into ROCm tools.

Skills

C++

Profiling tools

GPU programming (HIP/CUDA/OpenCL)

Linux development

ROCm

Concurrent programming

Git / Source control

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

ROCm tooling

GitHub

Job description

AMD seeks an influential software engineer to improve performance profiling for AMD GPUs. You will join a core team working with architecture, driver, and runtime groups on Pre Silicon and Post Silicon activities, shaping profiling tools and APIs for AI and HPC workloads.

You should be passionate about software engineering, with leadership abilities to drive complex issues to resolution and communicate effectively across teams.