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Sr Director, Silicon Performance and Design Execution

AMD· Engineering
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Santa Clara, CA$278.4k - $417.6kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for end-to-end silicon performance and design execution across post-silicon phases, providing technical and organizational leadership for system-level performance, hardware/software optimizations, silicon debug, and sustained performance delivery for complex SoCs and accelerators.

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end performance leadership for AI/ML workloads, including workload selection, characterization, simulation, performance projection, root-cause analysis, and attainment across pre-silicon and post-silicon phases, partnering with Architecture, Software, Hardware Engineering, and Product teams.
  • Provide leadership in AI workloads across LLMs, LDMs and Ranking & recommendation engines to identify key features in DC GPU, software frameworks and parallelization techniques.
  • Develop organizational capabilities to scale workloads for performance enhancements and architecture leadership at AI cluster level.
  • Provide direction for system profiling, analysis to identify performance bottlenecks for rack scale and AI clusters.
  • Outline strategic influence on architecture features for DC GPU products and software optimizations from AI workload analysis at scale.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering

Skills

Required:AI/ML performance engineeringData Center GPU performance architectureSystems ArchitectureAI software components and frameworks

Benefits

  • Benefits described in AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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