Software Performance Engineer

Key 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

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Shipped code with SIMD, especially AVX512
• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform
• Deep Knowledge of C/C++ programming
• Experience investigating compiler code generation, e.g. LLVM auto-vectorization
• 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

Bonus

• Experience with LLVM IR code and API
• Experience developing highly parallel applications and algorithms
• Experience with power/performance tuning
• Knowledge of x86/x64 assembly language and special instructions
• Knowledge of interpreted languages such as Python and JavaScript
• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments

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