Ryzen/Radeon Systems Design Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

THE ROLE:

The AMD CG (Compute-Graphics) Performance and Power Engineering Team carries the duty of ensuring AMD APU & GPU products that deliver performance leadership and superior power efficiency. We work along and with various individuals within and outside of the team that allows us to engage in all sorts of work that impacts current and future products. This role offers the opportunity to show your passion towards CPU, APU, and GPU technology to provide users with the best experience possible. The team is passionate about power and performance with primary responsibilities in post-silicon bring-up, feature and workload optimization and characterization, debug and product optimization. Successful candidate will assume responsibility for post-silicon activities related to power and performance characterization and optimization of AMD discrete GPU products and integrated NPU products.

THE PERSON:

We are seeking an engineer for development of post-silicon activities related to performance and perf/watt optimization of AMD CG products. We are looking for a passionate candidate to join our highly visible team to deliver the highest performing and most power efficient products to millions of users worldwide.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developing and executing performance, power and perf/watt characterization and optimization test plans for different usage scenarios (3D, compute, multimedia, Static Screen, AI, etc.)
• Analyzing interactions between various performance and power management features and optimize their configurations for power and performance
• Developing post-Si power/performance models for key usage scenarios
• Support prototyping experiments for improving current and implementing new features that impact performance and power
• Debugging and troubleshooting system-level issues that may occur in test environments and platforms
• Proactively driving continuous improvement for post-silicon power and performance activities
• Participating in the product definition process

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Understanding of power/thermal management and Performance
• Good understanding of computer organization/architecture
• Deep understanding of digital electronics
• Extensive laboratory experience, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to detail
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in programming: C or C++, and a scripting language (for example: Python, Perl, PHP, or shells)
• Experience with data analysis tools, database, machine learning is a plus (e.g. PowerBi, Excel, Matplotlib, Plotly, Tableau, R Programming, MySQL, Azure, Snowflake, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
• Understanding of leading-edge artificial intelligence workloads an asset

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors + 5 years or Master’s degree + 3 Years in Electronics/Computer Engineering or Computer Science with emphasis on computer architecture and workload analysis

LOCATION:

Markham, ON, Canada (Onsite)

#LI-DNI

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.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.