Power & Performance Lead System Engineer- 92131

With AMD's Client engineering teams, you will be exposed to the world’s best Desktop/PC and Mobile CPU, GPU and APU processors for accelerated system computing power. As an AMD Client Engineer you will have visibility to cutting edge multi-layered security features, H-Series processors optimized for gamers and creators, and U-Series processors optimized for thin and light notebooks. In addition, you will learn how AMD achieves unprecedented performance and battery life with 7nm “Zen 3” core architecture. Zen is delivering a 19% IPC and up to 26% gaming performance generational uplift, with power efficiency up to 2.8X greater than the performance-per-watt of our competition. Come join our world class client engineering team providing rapid career growth advancement, and access to cutting edge client technologies, through its year over year record-breaking market share, product performance and revenue gains!

The Role:

Lead a team of engineers develop and execute responsibilities for post-silicon activities related to power and performance characterization and optimization of AMD Client Computing products.

The Person:

We are looking for a passionate hands-on leader to join our highly visible team to deliver the highest performing and most power efficient products to millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Managing and growing a technical team of engineers from day-to-day assignments to long-term career development
• Developing and executing power, performance, and perf/watt characterization and optimization test plans for different usage scenarios (CPU, GPU, Multimedia, VR, Compute, Static Screen, etc).
• Analyzing interactions between various power management features and optimize their configurations for power and performance
• Developing post-silicon power and performance models for key usage scenarios
• Support prototyping experiments for improving current and implementing new features that impact power and performance
• Debugging and troubleshooting system-level issues that may occur in test environments and platforms
• Proactively driving continuous improvement for post-silicon power and performance activities
• Participating in the product definition process

Key Requirements:

• Experience: 6+ years
• Excellent leadership skills including experience managing technical projects/teams
• Strong programming skills: C or C++, and a scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Understanding of concepts in the following areas:
• computer organization/architecture
• digital/analog electronics
• power/thermal management
• Extensive laboratory experience, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to detail
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
• Experience with data analysis tools and machine learning is a plus

Education:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science with emphasis on computer architecture and/or workload analysis