Power and Performance Engineer

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Power and Performance Engineer

THE ROLE:

AMD's Computing and Graphics business unit is seeking a technical leader to drive nextgeneration power architecture, firmware, algorithms, and software interfaces across AMD client and handheld SoCs. In this highly influential role, you will help define the powermanagement architecture for future AMD platforms-driving innovation from early concept and definition, through design execution, and into postsilicon validation.
You will collaborate closely with SoC and platform architects, IP and physical design teams, software and firmware engineering, silicon validation, and packaging teams to deliver breakthrough improvements in power efficiency, performanceperwatt, and battery life. This is an opportunity to have a direct and visible impact on AMD's most advanced products. This senior role will stretch you as you lead architecture teams in new directions, network with our world-class, patent-holding think-tank, and negotiate amongst design teams, marketing, and business unit executives.

THE PERSON:

You are a deep technical thinker with strong problemsolving and communication skills. You excel at explaining complex concepts through publications, presentations, or executive briefings.
You thrive in highly collaborative environments, mentor others naturally, and raise the collective expertise of the teams around you. You combine practical handson skills with systemlevel vision, and you are energized by building algorithms and firmware that shape silicon behavior.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Algorithm, Firmware & Software Interface Architecture

• Develop and architect new power algorithms and software features using stateoftheart techniques, including classfiers, regression models, machine learning approches for CPU/GPU power and performance optimization.
• Define and implement software interfaces that influence and optimize hardware behavior across the SoC.
• Prototype and develop new firmware for complex powercontrol algorithms throughout the SoC roadmap.

Performance & Workload Optimization

• Profile emerging NN and LLM (Agentic) workloads on client platforms tune algorithms to optimize power during active, highload, and interactive usage scenarios.
• Analyze power and performance benchmarks to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.

SystemLevel Power Architecture

• Architect, implement, and optimize control software and firmware features to achieve productlevel power targets.
• Drive crossorganization alignment for innovative powerreduction methodologies and ensure convergence across design teams.
• Collaborate with global architecture and design teams to implement and validate SoC powermanagement solutions.
• Optimize real PC use cases for both absolute power and performanceperwatt.

HandsOn Engineering

• Work directly with development boards to prototype new features and evaluate new power features.
• Conduct software tracing, firmware debugging, and activity profiling to diagnose issues and drive improvements.
  
  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• 8+ years of industry experience is preferred
• Experience profiling software workloads on CPUs and GPUs.

• Knowledge of defining lowlevel software interfaces to influence hardware performance and power behavior.

• Background in SOC hardware design, clock distribution, power delivery and performance

• Experience profiling and tuning hardware/software stacks to achieve power and performance efficiency on benchmark workloads.
• Prior algorithm development in C or Python MATLAB experience preferred.

• Expertise in algorithm development for predictive systems using regression and classification frameworks for complex datasets.

• Experience with system and SoC control firmware, including RTOS and baremetal development.

• Familiarity with ACPI, UEFI, and platformlevel power management frameworks.

• Demonstrated expertise in system and SoC power optimization techniques.

• Experience with software tracing, firmware debugging, and activity profiling tools.

• Windows OS and kernellevel knowledge, including power frameworks, drivers, and system activity tracing.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills ability to lead and influence teams across geographies.

• Clear, methodical problem solver comfortable driving complex initiatives independently.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field.

Benefits offered are described: .

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.