Lead Software System Design Eng - System PNP

<strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSCustomFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSCustomFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSCustomFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">gaming</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and embedded systems. 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This role will have a <strong>dual focus</strong>:</span></p><ol style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Benchmarking, Profiling, and bottleneck analysis on AMD’s system PnP stack, with emphasis on <strong>Linux and virtualized environments</strong>.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Driving <strong>competitive benchmarking</strong> across market segments, comparing AMD SoCs against competition.</span></li></ol><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The ideal candidate will combine strong technical depth in <strong>system performance analysis</strong> with a passion for competitive evaluation, ensuring AMD delivers industry-leading performance and power efficiency.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Key Responsibilities</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">System Power & Performance / PnP</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Plan, execute and own <strong>system performance including low level profiling and bottleneck analysis</strong> on AMD’s SoCs, focusing on Linux (Ubuntu, Yocto) and virtualized software stacks for Robotics, automotive and industrial. </span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Perform <strong>benchmark characterization</strong>, system-level tuning, micro architecture and workload analysis across CPU, GPU, NPU, AI and memory subsystems.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Collaborate with SoC architects, BIOS/FW teams, and software developers to identify performance gaps and recommend optimizations.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generate <strong>comprehensive technical reports, dashboards, and documentation</strong> for leadership reviews, customer engagements, and outbound collateral.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Contribute to automation for benchmark execution, data collection, and results visualization.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Work with cross-functional teams to debug system-level issues blocking performance goals.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Competitive Benchmarking</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Drive <strong>competitive benchmarking initiatives</strong> by running workloads on competitive platforms (Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM-based SoCs) and building comparative landscapes across segments (client, embedded, industrial, automotive).</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Build comparative performance landscapes across segments including client, embedded, server, industrial, and automotive.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Provide actionable insights that help influence future SoC, firmware, and platform design.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Automation, Reporting & Documentation</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Support development of automation for benchmark execution, data collection, and results visualization.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generate technical reports, dashboards, and documentation for leadership and customer engagements.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Foster continuous improvement and innovation within validation and performance analysis environments.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Required Skills & Experience</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">14+ years</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> of relevant experience in system performance engineering, profiling, bottleneck analysis, or post-silicon validation.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Strong hands-on experience with <strong>Linux system performance analysis</strong>; exposure to Android and virtualized stacks is a plus.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Good to have experience with <strong>ROS2 framework</strong>, Robotics algorithms and components:</span></li><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="circle"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Perception pipelines (SLAM, visual‑odometry, sensor fusion)</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Planning & control loops</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kinematics, dynamics, and real-time constraints</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Middleware communication patterns: pipes, shared memory, zero‑copy</span></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Expert in <strong>Linux internals</strong> (scheduling, memory management), <strong>Real Time systems </strong>(RT kernel, interrupt and jitter), QoS Tuning.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hands on in performance profiling tools: Perf<strong>, valgrind, LTTng, perfetto, Trace Compass, wireshark, Nsight, Vtune, Oprofile, Flameghraphs, GPU Perf studio etc</strong></span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of <strong>x86 SoC architecture</strong>, CPU/GPU/NPU performance, memory hierarchy, PCIe, BIOS/FW interactions, and system-level behavior.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Experience with industry benchmarking suites such as <strong>SPEC, 3DMark, PCMark, GFXBench, MLPerf, MobileMark</strong>, browser benchmarks, and multimedia workloads.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Proficiency in <strong>Python/Bash/C/C++/Perl</strong> for automation, data processing, and reporting.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Strong knowledge of <strong>embedded OSes and hypervisors</strong> (Linux, Windows Server, VMware, KVM, Xen, etc.).</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in fast-paced environments.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience producing clear, data-driven reports.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Proven cross-team collaboration skills and ability to drive complex debug efforts.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Preferred Qualifications</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Experience with <strong>virtualization technologies</strong> (Xen, KVM, Hyper-V, container environments).</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Exposure to <strong>post-silicon bring-up</strong>, system validation flows, and early silicon testing.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Experience with <strong>competitive benchmarking methodologies</strong> and customer-facing documentation.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Debug expertise at <strong>system level</strong> and <strong>SoC level</strong>.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Education</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; 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