Senior Software Performance Engineer

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At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.

Benchmark Development Engineer

The Role

AMD is looking for a software engineer for a high impact role in Software Performance Engineering focused on analyzing the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of high-talent industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

The Person

Ideal candidate would be curious and methodical in investigating the interaction between hardware and software and impacts on performance, power, and user experience. You would be jumping into the internals of widely used software, developing tools and techniques to instrument and measure performance, and testing on the latest and upcoming AMD hardware. You will have the support of and interact closely with key AMD technical specialists across hardware and software specialties.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop benchmarks to evaluate the performance of AMD consumer products
• Instrument existing code to help analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance, finding performance bottlenecks
• Use all available tools and/or source code to determine the nature of the identified bottleneck
• Isolate and exemplify identified bottlenecks for further investigation
• Hands-on testing of software performance on the latest AMD hardware
• Apply a data minded approach to target investigation efforts
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially in algorithms and architecture

Preferred Experience

• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform
• Excellent Knowledge of C/C++ programming
• Experience using CPU profilers such as vTune, WPA, MSVS Performance Profiler
• Knowledge of SIMD instructions such as SSE, AVX, NEON
• Knowledge of modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
• Knowledge of CPU architecture
• Familiarity with modern source version control such as Git, Mercurial
• Excellent communication skills and able to work with partners effectively
• Self-starter, passionate about performance

Bonus

• Experience developing parallel applications and algorithms
• Experience with power/performance tuning
• Knowledge of modern compiler toolchains and optimizations
• Knowledge of x86/x64 assembly language and special instructions
• Knowledge of interpreted languages such as Python and JavaScript
• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments

Academic Credentials

At least a BS/MS in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.

Location:

• Anywhere in Poland

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