Power & Performance Attainment Lead

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THE ROLE:

We are seeking an experienced datacenter/Server Power and Performance Attainment Lead with expertise or significant interest in overall SoC and IP level power constrained performance.

At AMD, our focus is around high-performance and power efficient best in class Server SoC, opening new territory and pushing boundaries to gain generation to generation improvements in many performance KPIs not just at SOC but also at IP and platform level. You will drive server product power constrained performance achievement methodology advancement and lead execution cross functional teams for Power and performance projection and attainment. This is an exciting domain space to be in working on world-class SOC products. We have a competitive benefit package and an award-wining culture. Join us!.

THE PERSON:

You have strong communication and presentation skills, strong analytical/problem-solving and project management skills. You are self-directed, a strategic problem solver, able to handle complexity and ambiguity. Finally, you can work effectively and lead through influence in a cross-functional/matrixed organization. Prior pre-silicon power analysis and/or optimization experience using models. A thoughtful leader of industry methodologist in this domain is a big plus. You are highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you. Adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and senior architects with strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies.  Proven project leadership skills in a matrix organization to drive successful project completion with quality.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Advance state of methodology for power constrained performance achievement using power and performance models to scale to all growing server SoC product segments with predictability.
• Work with business unit to define product configurations, capabilities and targets.
• Profiling and co-optimization of relative performance constrained by power using power and performance models results to forecast and attain to targets throughput development cycles.
• Track simulation and/or emulation results and correlate with model predictions.
• Track post silicon performance bring up and debug of new silicon, with and without power constraints and power management features fully enabled.
• Analyze results and possible causes for underperforming using advanced methodologies.
• Coordinate corrective actions activity
• Comprehend the SOC as a complete system which includes HW (Silicon), FW, BIOS & SW and ensure that FW, BIOS & SW are aligned to enable all features, optimizing for performance and power

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Outstanding foundation in Systems & SoC architecture, with expertise in one or more of the following: CPU, Memory sub-system, Fabrics, CPU coherency,  I/O subsystems, Clocks, Virtualization
• Demonstrated expertise in power management microarchitecture, power optimization, along with power impact at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels
• Expert in Power/performance tools and flows. Help drive future enhancement in to existing flows. 
• Candidate to be the key interface for CAD for power tools/flow development. 
• Advanced working knowledge of power constrained performance analysis and optimization of modern SOCs with CPU/HW accelerators
• Excellent knowledge of advanced computer organization/ architecture.
• Good understanding of model-based performance & power analysis methodologies and practices. Understanding of power/thermal management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a key attention to detail. Data quality analysis such as data mining/machine learning.
• Experience analyzing CPU or System-level Micro-Architectural features to identify performance bottlenecks within different workloads is desired
• Good programming skills: preference for Python language

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Undergrad degree required. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related discipline preferred

LOCATION: Austin, TX

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.