DC-GPU Power and Performance Modeling Engineer

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DC-GPU Power and Performance Modeling Engineer

THE ROLE:

AMD's Datacenter Performance Group is seeking talented, motivated engineers to drive the Power Constrained Performance of our industry-leading AI/ML/HPC GPUs. The role will involve many aspects of Perf@Power attainment, including pre-Si power modeling, post-Si correlation, workload analysis, setting PPA targets and driving attainment, power/perf roll-ups and reporting, methodology innovations and development. Being passionate about performance and power efficiency is a key ingredient for success in this role.

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for performance and power efficiency. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Pre-silicon power modeling (HW-IP, SoC, Multi-GPU nodes/clusters), Power-constrained Performance projections and Reporting
• Support Pre-silicon PPA target setting (for HW IPs, FW and SW)
• Support PPA attainment by working with various engineering functions including SOC architecture, System Design, IP Design, Foundry team, Physical Design, Software, Power Management, Post-si validation
• Post Si calibration of models and Power/Performance debug
• Analyzing key workloads for power behaviors and optimization opportunities
• Scripting and coding to automate routine tasks, building new tools for wider usage

KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

• Background in Computer Architecture, Power and Performance
• Experience in Soc Level Power/Performance projections, modeling and optimization
• Experience in power modeling for digital and analog IPs
• Familiarity with digital logic physical design and power management techniques (clock gating, power gating, V-F curves, p-states, on-die voltage regulation, clock integrity, etc..)
• Verilog RTL coding experience/understanding is desirable, especially low power design techniques
• Experience in post-silicon power/performance debug, model correlation
• Knowledge of DL/ML/LLM workloads will be a bonus
• Fluency in Excel based data analysis & charting, scripting experience in Ruby, Python

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

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