PMTS Software Development Engineer

About the role

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

Job Role and Responsibility: AMD, Inc., is hiring PMTS Software Development Engineer to 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. 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. Contribute performance improvements to open source projects and identify other applications that may benefit. 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. Utilize knowledge of computers and electronics, including circuit boards, processors, chips, and electronic equipment, as well as knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles. Apply knowledge of engineering principles, best practices, and technologies to the design, development, and testing of various company proprietary products. Can work remotely Multiple openings. Qualified applicants click “APPLY NOW” button to apply online. Travel required: NO Qualifications: Degree required Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field. Qualifications: Amount and type of experience required: Five (5) years experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role. Alternate combination of education and experience: Employer will alternatively accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and seven (7) years of progressive post baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role. Specific skills required: The following skills are required: Position requires Five (5) years of experience in the following: Shipped code with SIMD intrinsics such as AVX512; Identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform; C or C++ programming; Investigating compiler code generation, such as LLVM auto-vectorization; Modern concurrent programming and threading APIs; CPU architecture; Modern source version control such as Git or Mercurial; Developing highly parallel applications and algorithms; Power or performance tuning; x86 or x64 assembly language; Interpreted languages such as Python and JavaScript; Compiler development; Performance optimization or ISA optimization; and WebAssembly or Web standards development. Preferred Skills: N/A