Lead Server Performance Architect
AMD · Posted Oct 5
High-performance processors, graphics cards, data center solutions, and AI accelerators
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About the role
AMD's Server Performance Group architects, validates and optimizes performance of new features through full-chip simulation and emulation platforms for AMD-based next-generation servers, spanning CPU, Data Fabric, Memory subsystem and IO. The team drives performance analysis, RTL-to-model correlation and silicon correlation for high-performance x86 server CPUs. This Lead Server Performance Architect role leads a team of performance verification engineers, defines the performance verification strategy, and builds AI/ML-based infrastructure to automate performance analysis and debug.
What you will do
- Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of performance verification engineers.
- Foster a culture of innovation, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
- Provide strategic direction across multiple concurrent verification programs.
- Program Leadership
- Define and execute the performance verification strategy for high-performance x86 server CPU.
- Collaborate with architecture, u-arch, RTL, performance modeling, firmware, and software teams to define and validate performance KPIs.
- Ensure timely delivery of simulation/emulation results, and optimization feedback loops.
- Performance Analysis & Correlation
- Develop and execute performance verification plans targeting IPC, latency, throughput, and power efficiency.
- Capability to debug performance outliers thru Performance Monitoring Counters (PMC).
- Drive correlation between RTL and performance models, ensuring architectural intent is met.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks using simulation, emulation, and silicon data.
- Toolchain & Methodology
- Build and maintain scalable, modular performance verification infrastructure.
- Lead emulation-based performance setup and debug, enabling early performance validation.
- Integrate performance regression, profiling, and analysis flows using industry-standard and custom tools.
- Collaborate with compiler and OS teams to ensure software stack alignment with hardware performance goals.
- AI-Driven Infrastructure
- Drive the development of AI/ML-based infrastructure to automate performance analysis, anomaly detection, and efficiency improvements.
- Leverage data-driven techniques to optimize verification coverage and reduce debug cycles.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with x86 architecture, RTL design, physical design, and software teams to ensure performance targets are met.
- Influence design decisions through data-backed performance insights.
- Stakeholder Management
- Align verification goals with business and product roadmaps.
- Communicate performance status, risks, and trade-offs to executive leadership and stakeholders.
- Industry Awareness
- Stay current with trends in CPU architecture, performance modeling, and verification technologies.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging tools and techniques to maintain a competitive edge.
Skills used in this role
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About AMD
AMD is a global semiconductor company that designs high-performance central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and adaptive processors for data centers, personal computers, gaming consoles, and embedded systems. The company specializes in advanced computing solutions and AI accelerators, positioning itself as a major leader in modern high-performance and artificial intelligence hardware. Through strategic developments and acquisitions, AMD continues to expand its ecosystem across cloud infrastructure, enterprise computing, and physical AI.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 31000 employees
- Founded
- 1969-05-01
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2007-11-16Post Ipo
Leadership
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Business Group
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