Senior Architect for Power and Performance Leadership

5 days ago


San Jose, California, United States Advanced Micro Devices Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Power and Performance Lead with expertise or significant interest in System Architecture. The successful candidate will have had significant success driving architecture, product roadmaps, and product requirements.

This senior role requires strong technical knowledge, leadership skills, and experience in managing cross-functional teams. You will lead architecture teams in new directions, network with our world-class, patent-holding think-tank, and negotiate amongst design teams, marketing, and business unit executives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define Product Features and Capabilities: Close architecture, micro-architecture requirements, drive technical specifications for SoC and IP blocks to meet those requirements, and provide technical direction to execution teams.
  • Comprehend the SOC as a Complete System: Include HW (Silicon), FW, BIOS & SW, and ensure that FW, BIOS & SW are aligned to enable all features, optimizing for performance and power.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with IP/Domain architects to identify and assess complex technical issues/risks and develop architectural solutions to achieve product requirements.
  • Knowledge Sharing and Contributions: Share knowledge and make contributions to Platform & System Architecture.
  • Product Owner Responsibilities: Analyze and provide technical solutions for marketing/feature change requests.
  • Design Team Support: Work closely with Design teams for Area and Floorplan refinement, Verification Test plan reviews, Timing targets, Emulation plans, Pre-Si bug resolution, and Performance/Power Verification sign-offs.
  • Post-Si Team Support: Support Post-Si teams for Product Performance, Power, and functional issues debug/resolution.

Preferred Experience

  • Systems & SoC Architecture Expertise: Outstanding foundation in Systems & SoC architecture, with expertise in one or more of the following: CPU or GPU, Memory sub-system, Fabrics, CPU/GPU coherency, Multimedia, I/O subsystems, Clocks, Resets, Virtualization, and Security.
  • Performance Bottleneck Analysis: Experience analyzing CPU, GPU, or System-level Micro-Architectural features to identify performance bottlenecks within different workloads.
  • Power Management Micro-Architecture: Demonstrated expertise in power management microarchitecture, low power design, and power optimization, along with power impact at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels.
  • Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent communication, management, and presentation skills.
  • Adept Collaboration: Adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and senior architects with strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies.

Bachelor's or Master's Degree

A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related discipline is preferred.

Salary Range

The estimated salary range for this position is $150,000 - $220,000 per year, depending on qualifications and experience. Additionally, AMD offers competitive benefits, including stock ownership opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package.


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