AI/HPC Performance and Characterization Engineer Full-time

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The AMD Data Center Power and Performance Systems Engineering Team is a cutting-edge hardware-based lab team engaged on an array of leading technologies found in today’s leading Data Center Products.

This team is essential to the success of AMD as a growing company. It is a very exciting environment with a friendly, collaborative, and highly skilled staff and management that will be there to guide you throughout your stay at AMD.

THE ROLE:

The successful candidate will assume responsibility for post-silicon activities related to performance characterization and optimization of AMD Datacenter products

THE PERSON:

Must be a self-starter, effective communicator and able to independently drive tasks to completion

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Become a key stakeholder in product performance validation process
• Develop and execute performance validation test plans for HPC/ML frameworks
• Evaluate performance bottlenecks and come up with ways to improve product performance in various product sub-domains Power management, SW, Compute, Memory Subsystem, IO, and Networking
• Generate consistent performance metrics based on industry standards and develop frameworks, needed scripts for collecting and reporting metrics
• Work actively on creating and maintaining micro benchmarks for performance evaluation in SRIOV and Bare Metal environments.
• Characterize critical product KPIs to ensure product meets pre-silicon targets
• Provide feedback to next generation products through performance data and debug lessons learned
• Debugging and troubleshooting system-level issues that may occur in test and customer platforms
• Proactively driving continuous improvement for post-silicon performance activities

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Excellent grasp of computer organization/architecture
• Detailed knowledge of NUMA, Cache Coherency, PCIe
• Extensive experience in platform optimization. Solid knowledge of Computer I/O.
• Experience with tools for performance analysis
• Strong programming skills, experience in Python preferred
• Desirable to be proficient in Linux command line environment and Shell scripting
• Deep knowledge of power management techniques like deep sleep and clock gating
• Experience with virtualization(ex. KVM)
• Experience with container technologies(ex. Docker)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a key attention to detail
• Excellent presentation and communication skills

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS degree in Electronics/Computer Engineering or Computer Science with emphasis on computer architecture and workload analysis, MS preferred
• 5+ years’ experience preferred.

LOCATION:

Penang, Malaysia

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