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Performance Validation Engineer

AMD and Careers
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/26/2026
Overview:
WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.
Responsibilities:

PERFORMANCE VALIDATION ENGINEER

THE ROLE:
AMD is looking for a Performance Validation Engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of our next generation server products. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate should be passionate about performance validation and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
  • Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
  • Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
  • Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
  • Analyzing benchmarks and performance characteristics of next generation AMD servers and AI Accelerators.
  • Research trade-offs for our server architecture, especially as related to the memory hierarchy, storage systems, scheduling, and I/O devices.
  • Collect data from benchmark results, data from CPU performance counters, and other related performance information to identify bottlenecks and other performance limitations of the benchmark itself, SoC and system.
  • Evaluate system performance by executing industry standard benchmarks.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • In depth experience with Linux and included performance analysis tools and methods.
  • Experience executing industry standard benchmarks or other performance test workloads like SPEC CPU 2017, HPL, DGEMM and more.
  • Test automation experience.
  • Highly motivated independent contributor with a strong desire to learn and develop a deep understanding of the technology.
  • Extensive knowledge of computer system architecture.
  • Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C . BASH, Python, etc).
  • Communicates and collaborates well with others.
  • Experience with PCIe testing and hardware validation.
  • Effective communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Motivating leader with good interpersonal skills.
  • Experience with I/O benchmarks and tools such as Infiniband, iPerf3, FIO and others.
  • Experience benchmarking memory technologies such as DDR5, CXL, HBM and others.
  • Competitive analysis as it relates to server architectures and AI workloads.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
LOCATION
Austin, TX
  • Hybrid onsite (3 days a week minimum) is required in Austin, TX.


This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.


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Qualifications:
Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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