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Job Summary:

AMD is a company focused on transforming lives with technology and building products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a high-impact role in Software Performance Engineering, responsible for improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks while collaborating with industry specialists and partners.

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:

Required:

• At least a BS/MS/PhD in computer science, computer engineering or a related field

Preferred:

• Shipped code with SIMD intrinsics, especially AVX512

• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform

• Deep Knowledge of C/C++ programming

• Knowledge of modern concurrent programming and threading APIs

• Knowledge of CPU architecture

• Familiarity with modern source version control such as Git, Mercurial

• Excellent communication skills and able to work with partners effectively

• Self-starter, passionate about performance

Company:

Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company. AMD has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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