AMD

1 month ago

Principal SoC Performance Architect-Microbenchmarks

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end performance analysis, microbenchmark development, and workload characterization for AMD’s next-generation Data Center GPU platforms. Build and maintain microbenchmarks across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments, identify bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, drivers, and runtimes, and deliver data-driven insights to architecture and software teams to optimize AI/HPC performance.

Location: Austin

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Analyze and optimize performance of DCGPU systems across AI training, inference, and HPC workloads
•Identify bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, drivers, runtime, libraries, and applications
•Perform deep kernel-level and system-level profiling to understand performance behavior
•Provide actionable insights to architecture, software, and design teams to improve performance
•Design and develop targeted microbenchmarks to characterize GPU subsystems (compute, memory, interconnect, collectives) and ensure they correlate with real-world workloads

Key Requirements

•10–15+ years of experience in performance engineering for GPUs, HPC systems, or highly parallel SoCs
•Strong understanding of GPU architecture, parallel computing, and memory hierarchies
•Experience with microbenchmark development and system-level workload analysis
•Hands-on experience with performance profiling tools (rocprof, Nsight, perf)
•Experience analyzing AI/HPC workloads (LLMs, training, inference) and GPU interconnects (e.g., RCCL/NCCL)

Experience:10-15 yearsGPUHPCAIGPU interconnects

Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationAnalytical

Languages:English

Tech Stack:CUDAHIPOpenCLROCmC++Python

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

AMD

Designs and produces semiconductor products including CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive SoCs for consumer, enterprise, and embedded markets, competing across PCs, data centers, and gaming industries.

Industry: Electronics Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States

Founded: 1969

Glassdoor: 3.9

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