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Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuityand a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’lldiscover 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.\nSystem Power & Performance Engineer\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking a highly motivated System Power & Performance Engineer to join our System PnP team. This role will have a dual focus:\nBenchmarking, Profiling, and bottleneck analysis on AMD’s system PnP stack, with emphasis on Linux and virtualized environments.\nDriving competitive benchmarking across market segments, comparing AMD SoCs against competition.\nThe ideal candidate will combine strong technical depth in system performance analysis with a passion for competitive evaluation, ensuring AMD delivers industry-leading performance and power efficiency.\nKey Responsibilities\nSystem Power & Performance / PnP\nExecute and own system performance including low level profiling and bottleneck analysis on AMD’s SoCs, focusing on Linux (Ubuntu, Yocto), Windows, FReeRTOS and virtualized software stacks for Robotics, automotive and industrial. \nPerform benchmark characterization, system-level tuning, micro architecture and workload analysis across CPU, GPU, NPU, AI and memory subsystems.\nCollaborate with SoC architects, BIOS/FW teams, and software developers to identify performance gaps and recommend optimizations.\nGenerate comprehensive technical reports, dashboards, and documentation for leadership reviews, customer engagements, and outbound collateral.\nContribute to automation for benchmark execution, data collection, and results visualization.\nWork with cross-functional teams to debug system-level issues blocking performance goals.\nCompetitive Benchmarking\nDrive competitive benchmarking initiatives by running workloads on competitive platforms (Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM-based SoCs) and building comparative landscapes across segments (client, embedded, industrial, automotive).\nBuild comparative performance landscapes across segments including client, embedded, server, industrial, and automotive.\nProvide actionable insights that help influence future SoC, firmware, and platform design.\nAutomation, Reporting & Documentation\nSupport development of automation for benchmark execution, data collection, and results visualization.\nGenerate technical reports, dashboards, and documentation for leadership and customer engagements.\nFoster continuous improvement and innovation within validation and performance analysis environments.\nRequired Skills & Experience\n10 - 14+ years of relevant experience in system performance engineering, profiling, bottleneck analysis, or post-silicon validation.\nStrong hands-on experience with Linux system performance analysis; exposure to Android and virtualized stacks is a plus.\nExpert in Linux internals (scheduling, memory management), Real Time systems (RT kernel, interrupt and jitter), QoS Tuning.\nHands on in performance profiling tools: Perf, valgrind, LTTng, perfetto, Trace Compass, wireshark, Nsight, Vtune, Oprofile, Flameghraphs, GPU Perf studio etc\nStrong understanding of x86 SoC architecture, CPU/GPU/NPU performance, memory hierarchy, PCIe, BIOS/FW interactions, and system-level behavior.\nExperience with industry benchmarking suites such as CyclicTest, RTLA,\nExposure to benchmarks like SPEC, 3DMark, PCMark, GFXBench, MLPerf, MobileMark, browser benchmarks, and multimedia workloads.\nProficiency in Python/Bash/C/C++/Perl for automation, data processing, and reporting.\nStrong knowledge of embedded OSes and hypervisors (Linux, Windows Server, VMware, KVM, Xen, etc.).\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent projects in fast-paced environments.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills with experience producing clear, data-driven reports.\nProven cross-team collaboration skills and ability to drive complex debug efforts.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with virtualization technologies (Xen, KVM, Hyper-V, container environments).\nExposure to post-silicon bring-up, system validation flows, and early silicon testing.\nExperience with competitive benchmarking methodologies and customer-facing documentation.\nDebug expertise at system level and SoC level.\nEducation\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nSystem Power & Performance Engineer\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking a highly motivated System Power & Performance Engineer to join our System PnP team. This role will have a dual focus:\nBenchmarking, Profiling, and bottleneck analysis on AMD’s system PnP stack, with emphasis on Linux and virtualized environments.\nDriving competitive benchmarking across market segments, comparing AMD SoCs against competition.\nThe ideal candidate will combine strong technical depth in system performance analysis with a passion for competitive evaluation, ensuring AMD delivers industry-leading performance and power efficiency.\nKey Responsibilities\nSystem Power & Performance / PnP\nExecute and own system performance including low level profiling and bottleneck analysis on AMD’s SoCs, focusing on Linux (Ubuntu, Yocto), Windows, FReeRTOS and virtualized software stacks for Robotics, automotive and industrial. \nPerform benchmark characterization, system-level tuning, micro architecture and workload analysis across CPU, GPU, NPU, AI and memory subsystems.\nCollaborate with SoC architects, BIOS/FW teams, and software developers to identify performance gaps and recommend optimizations.\nGenerate comprehensive technical reports, dashboards, and documentation for leadership reviews, customer engagements, and outbound collateral.\nContribute to automation for benchmark execution, data collection, and results visualization.\nWork with cross-functional teams to debug system-level issues blocking performance goals.\nCompetitive Benchmarking\nDrive competitive benchmarking initiatives by running workloads on competitive platforms (Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM-based SoCs) and building comparative landscapes across segments (client, embedded, industrial, automotive).\nBuild comparative performance landscapes across segments including client, embedded, server, industrial, and automotive.\nProvide actionable insights that help influence future SoC, firmware, and platform design.\nAutomation, Reporting & Documentation\nSupport development of automation for benchmark execution, data collection, and results visualization.\nGenerate technical reports, dashboards, and documentation for leadership and customer engagements.\nFoster continuous improvement and innovation within validation and performance analysis environments.\nRequired Skills & Experience\n10 - 14+ years of relevant experience in system performance engineering, profiling, bottleneck analysis, or post-silicon validation.\nStrong hands-on experience with Linux system performance analysis; exposure to Android and virtualized stacks is a plus.\nExpert in Linux internals (scheduling, memory management), Real Time systems (RT kernel, interrupt and jitter), QoS Tuning.\nHands on in performance profiling tools: Perf, valgrind, LTTng, perfetto, Trace Compass, wireshark, Nsight, Vtune, Oprofile, Flameghraphs, GPU Perf studio etc\nStrong understanding of x86 SoC architecture, CPU/GPU/NPU performance, memory hierarchy, PCIe, BIOS/FW interactions, and system-level behavior.\nExperience with industry benchmarking suites such as CyclicTest, RTLA,\nExposure to benchmarks like SPEC, 3DMark, PCMark, GFXBench, MLPerf, MobileMark, browser benchmarks, and multimedia workloads.\nProficiency in Python/Bash/C/C++/Perl for automation, data processing, and reporting.\nStrong knowledge of embedded OSes and hypervisors (Linux, Windows Server, VMware, KVM, Xen, etc.).\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent projects in fast-paced environments.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills with experience producing clear, data-driven reports.\nProven cross-team collaboration skills and ability to drive complex debug efforts.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with virtualization technologies (Xen, KVM, Hyper-V, container environments).\nExposure to post-silicon bring-up, system validation flows, and early silicon testing.\nExperience with competitive benchmarking methodologies and customer-facing documentation.\nDebug expertise at system level and SoC level.\nEducation\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. 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