WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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What you do at AMD changes everything

At AMD, we push the boundaries of what is possible.  We believe in changing the world for the better by driving innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies – building blocks for gaming, Immersive platforms, and the data center.

Developing great technology takes more than talent: it takes amazing people who understand collaboration, respect, and who will go the “extra mile” to achieve unthinkable results.  It takes people who have the passion and desire to disrupt the status quo, push boundaries, deliver innovation, and change the world.   If you have this type of passion, we invite you to take a look at the opportunities available to come join our team.

 

Server Systems Performance Verification Architect

THE ROLE:

AMD’s Server Performance Group is looking for an outstanding Systems Performance Verification Architect to help optimize performance of next-generation servers for cloud, enterprise and HPC workloads.  Candidates with a deep interest in computer systems performance and who are excited to work on some of the most challenging problems in the computing industry today are strongly encouraged to apply.

THE PERSON:

Successful candidates in this role possess a keen attention to detail, excellent collaboration skills, ability to work independently and come up with creative solutions to challenging engineering problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a System Performance Verification Architect in AMD's design engineering team.
• Help AMD achieve and maintain performance leadership on modern server workloads.
• Optimize key workloads on AMD based servers by identifying performance opportunities on full chip RTL, as well as the underlying design
• Help architect performance verification architecture, develop perf verification methodology,code verification components and be able to design test plans to measure performance.   
• Build detailed understanding of AMD server CPU designs and microarchitecture, propose solutions to improve server performance through HW/SW co-optimization.
• Conduct performance studies on real server workloads on bleeding-edge hardware, work with developer teams to productize / upstream.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Truly exceptional foundation in systems architecture, across CPU, memory, storage and I/O subsystems
• Exceptional understanding of server SoC uarch
• Strong background in Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
• Experience in UVM/OVM based SV Test bench design
• Experience with any kernel subsystem such as the scheduler, memory management, IOMMU
• Exposure to hypervisors and familiarity with x86-64 virtualization
• Experience with hardware performance counter monitoring and performance profiling
• Exposure to large memory footprint server workloads (E.g. SPECjbb15, VMMark, databases, etc)
• Performance measurement, performance debug and characterization experience on above workloads
• Strong programming skills in System Verilog
• Generally strong programming skills across C/C++/Python or similar.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)