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Performance Software Development Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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Austin, TX$152kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focused on improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks on AMD platforms, collaborating with architecture specialists and external partners to optimize software and hardware performance.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance, finding performance bottlenecks
  • Use all available tools and/or source code to determine the nature of the identified bottleneck
  • Design solutions or workarounds to mitigate identified bottlenecks
  • Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
  • Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
  • Research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work and promote these to software vendors
  • Contribute performance improvements to open-source projects and identify other applications that may benefit
  • Develop technical relationships with your peers at our partner software vendors
  • Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially in algorithms and architecture
  • Be a specialist in the performance characteristics of mainstream CPUs
  • Some travel may be involved as you visit our partners at their locations as needed for co-engineering efforts and education

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Skills

Required:C/C++ programmingCPU profiling toolsSIMD/vector instructionsConcurrent programmingCPU architectureVersion controlCommunication

Benefits

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