Systems Power & AI Optimization Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks a driven Systems Design Engineer - Power & AI to join the Client and Graphic System Architecture team in Austin/Markham. You will define products, develop scalable automation, and drive cross-functional validation of power-aware architectures for next-gen hardware.

The role emphasizes in-depth power analysis, AI workload understanding, and cross-team collaboration. Bachelor's or Master's in electrical/computer engineering is required, with visa sponsorship not

Qualifications

• System Power Analysis & Optimization: analyze platform power, power-performance tradeoffs, battery life impacts, thermal constraints, and optimize system-level behavior.
• AI Systems Architecture & Performance Analysis: understand AI workloads at system level including memory, compute, power, performance, user experience, and platform requirements.
• Platform Validation, Debug & Automation: develop scripts/tools, perform board/platform-level debugging, use lab equipment, root-cause issues, and drive cross-functional feature validation.
• Programming/scripting skills (C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python).
• Debug techniques and methodologies.
• Experience with lab equipment including protocol/logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Experience with board/platform-level debug, delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization.
• Knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategies

Responsibilities

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities across product development and validation, including tool and script development, methodological enhancement, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Develop and automate System Power Modeling.
• Develop new Platform Management Framework feature sets.
• Work with multiple teams and track test execution to ensure features are validated and optimized on time.
• Collaborate with supporting technical teams.
• Engage in other software/hardware modeling frameworks.
• Lead collaborative approaches with multiple teams.

Skills

System power modeling

AI systems architecture

Platform validation & automation

Programming/scripting (C/C++, Perl, Py

Education

Bachelors or Masters in electrical or computer engineering

Tools

Lab equipment (analyzers, oscilloscopes)

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seeks a driven Systems Design Engineer - Power & AI to join the Client and Graphic System Architecture team in Austin/Markham. You will define products, develop scalable automation, and drive cross-functional validation of power-aware architectures for next-gen hardware.

The role emphasizes in-depth power analysis, AI workload understanding, and cross-team collaboration. Bachelor's or Master's in electrical/computer engineering is required, with visa sponsorship not