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Chief Competitive Performance & Microarchitecture Analysis

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, Texas)$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead the Advanced Competitive Performance capability to predict, validate, and communicate future server CPU competitiveness across architectures and platforms. Establish methods, tools, and governance for pre-market analysis, providing executive-ready insights and influencing architecture and product directions.

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical strategy, workload priorities and operating rhythm for AMD competitive CPU performance forecasting.
  • Own the predict-validate-translate cycle: workload taxonomy, architecture and platform assumptions, forecast ranges, validation, model tuning and business translation.
  • Lead reviews of assumptions covering CPU cores, cache and memory hierarchies, I/O, power, platform behavior, software stacks and workload scaling.
  • Establish a review discipline that distinguishes measured results, sourced assumptions, modeled inference and uncertainty.
  • Integrate x86, Arm, cloud-custom and CPU-plus-accelerator analyses into one decision-ready view of competitive risks and expected AMD advantage.
  • Deliver concise executive readouts that explain expected position, confidence, key drivers and recommended actions.
  • Partner with architecture, product and software teams to translate evidence into feature and platform recommendations.
  • Set standards for fair benchmarking, configuration control, partner validation, data provenance, clean-room governance and forecast-versus-actual learning.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated senior technical leadership in CPU or system performance, computer architecture, performance modeling or competitive benchmarking.
  • A record of turning low-level performance evidence into architecture, platform or product decisions.
  • Deep understanding of CPU pipelines, branch prediction, execution resources, cache and TLB behavior, NUMA, memory bandwidth and latency, system I/O, and cross-ISA effects.
  • Strong command of experimental design, benchmark fairness, configuration control, statistical interpretation and reproducibility.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, including the ability to present risk, alternatives and recommended action to senior audiences.
  • Experience working across architecture, software, platform, product, field or customer, and business stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Technical leadership in CPU or system performancePerformance modeling and forecastingBenchmarking and experimental designCross-ISA analysis and platform understandingExecutive communication

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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