Software Performance Engineer

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The Role

AMD is looking for a software engineer for a high impact role in Software Performance Engineering focused on analyzing and improving 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

The 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

• Instrument existing code to help analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance, finding performance bottlenecks
• Contribute code optimizations to proprietary and open-source software
• Characterize workloads to project performance using simulations of unreleased hardware
• Improve and develop tools to aid in instrumentation and characterization
• Isolate and exemplify identified bottlenecks for further investigation
• 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 in software performance optimization
• Knowledge of x86 computer architecture
• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform
• Excellent Knowledge of C/C++ programming
• Experience using CPU profilers such as vTune, perf, WPA, MSVS Performance Profiler
• Knowledge of SIMD instructions such as SSE, AVX, NEON
• 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
• 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

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

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