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Senior AI Systems Performance Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$178.4kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving AMD's AI workload performance characterization strategy across next-generation embedded and client platforms, leading benchmarking methodologies, root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and providing actionable insights to leadership, product planning, and customers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI workload benchmarking and performance characterization efforts across AMD AI-enabled embedded and client platforms.
  • Design and maintain scalable benchmarking infrastructure, automated performance dashboards, and workload analysis methodologies.
  • Drive deep root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks across software, firmware, operating system, silicon, memory, and platform layers.
  • Utilize advanced profiling and tracing tools to characterize AI workload behavior and identify optimization opportunities.
  • Analyze power, performance, throughput, latency, and efficiency tradeoffs across diverse AI deployments.
  • Collaborate closely with architecture, firmware, software, platform, and product teams to influence optimization strategies and future product direction.
  • Provide actionable performance insights to engineering leadership, business teams, product planning organizations, and external partners.
  • Support customer-facing performance investigations and technical engagements when required.
  • Develop performance evaluation methodologies used for competitive analysis and business strategy.
  • Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices across the AI performance engineering organization.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

Skills

Required:AI workload benchmarkingBenchmarking infrastructurePerformance analysisprofiling and tracing toolsAI frameworksLinux performanceHardware platformsBIOS/firmwareCommunicationAutomation/Scripting
Nice to have:Customer engagement

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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