Lead Software System Design Engineer

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THE ROLE:

We are seeking a senior performance devtools engineer with deep, handson experience analyzing and optimizing complex systems across Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD. This role focuses on solving real performance problems endtoend and building the tooling required to do so effectively.

THE PERSON:

This AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) team is looking for a senior level person that can help guide the team, mentor upcoming developers, provide long range strategy, and is willing to jump in to help resolve issues quickly. You will be involved in all areas that impact the team including performance, automation, and development. The right candidate will be informed on the latest trends and become prepared to give consultative direction to senior management.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform endtoend performance analysis of complex workloads across Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD
• Identify and resolve CPU, memory, cache, NUMA, scheduler, I/O, concurrency, and power/thermal bottlenecks
• Select and apply different performance analysis workflows based on problem class (latency, throughput, power, scalability)
• Design, develop, and enhance performance analysis and tuning toolchains used by engineers and power users
• Write productionquality C++ code to implement analysis tools, optimizations, experiments, and fixes
• Build and integrate AI agents to automate performance analysis, data triage, regression detection, and reporting
• Design and operate MCP servers (or equivalent agent backends) to connect models, tools, profilers, and data sources securely
• Drive power and performance optimizations at system, OS, and application layers
• Validate improvements using reproducible methodology, benchmarks, and datadriven reporting
• Collaborate with architecture, system software, tools, and hardware teams to influence design decisions
• Author technical papers, whitepapers, blogs, or conference publications
• Contribute tooling, fixes, or analysis back to opensource communities

Required Qualifications

• Proven handson experience performing performance analysis on complex systems
• Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture (pipelines, caches, SMT, NUMA, memory hierarchy, power states)
• Expertise analyzing performance across Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD
• Demonstrated experience in power and performance optimization
• Strong, handson C++ programming skills (ability to build tools, land fixes, and maintain production code)
• Experience developing or enhancing performance tuning toolchains
• Strong ability to correlate hardware behavior, OS behavior, and application behavior

Performance Analysis & Workflow Expertise (Must Have)

• Clear understanding of how to approach and solve different classes of performance problems, including:
• CPUbound vs memorybound
• Latencysensitive vs throughputdriven workloads
• Lock contention, scheduling, and concurrency bottlenecks
• Powerlimited, thermallimited, and frequencyscaling scenarios
• Ability to define repeatable, explainable workflows for diagnosis hypothesis measurement fix validation

AI, Agents & Automation

• Experience writing and using AI agents for performance analysis, automation, or developer productivity
• Ability to integrate AI responsibly into performance workflows (analysis, triage, optimization, reporting)
• Experience using AI to scale performance expertise, not just accelerate coding

Open Source & Publications

• Meaningful opensource contributions (code, tooling, performance investigations, or documentation)
• Authorship of multiple technical publications, such as:
• Conference papers or presentations
• Technical blogs or whitepapers
• Opensource design or performance analysis documents

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hardware performance counters and lowlevel profiling mechanisms
• Background in HPC, cloud infrastructure, or largescale production systems
• Experience influencing product or architecture decisions using performance data
• Strong mentoring and technical leadership skills

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