Sr. Software System Designer (amd)

Job Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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SENIOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS DESIGNER 

THE ROLE:   

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Software Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s products, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Software Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.   

THE PERSON:   

As a Software Systems Design Engineer, you will deliver our next generation of products in the CPU Libraries. In this high visibility position, your systems engineering expertise will be necessary to define products, develop solutions, assess root causes, and produce solution resolutions. As a senior member of the team, taking initiative in mentoring to achieve the team’s goal of on time delivery is expected. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:   

• Problem solving across multiple software layers, (user space, kernel, applications, libraries) and hardware.  
• Optimization/development of the CPU performance stack (applications, libraries) for AMD server processors.
• Analyze and solve performance, scalability bottlenecks when code is running on multi-core, multi-node deployments.
• Innovate and publish papers, patents and participate in technical conferences to advance AMD technologies.
• Continuously learn and grow along with evolving X86 server CPU architecture and application landscape.
• Lead collaborative approaches with multiple teams.  
• Mentor others to achieve integrated projects

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:   

• Very strong data structure and algorithmic skills.  
• Experience in identifying performance bottlenecks, and designing/implementing optimizations to relieve analyzed bottlenecks.
• Experience in software development using C/C++ and debugging skills on multicore systems.
• Experience in performance analysis for data center, HPC (High Performance Computing), MPI (Message passing Interface) applications.
• Experience in x86 (or other architecture based) optimizations.
• Understanding of Cache sub-system, Instruction Set Architecture, pipeline (for any CPU).
• Bonus skills: Experience on Intel MKL libraries, Linear Algebra, Core Math, x86 assembly programming.
• Knowledge of one or more CPU Profiling tools. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:   

• Bachelors or master’s degree in computer engineering or related field.

LOCATION:

Bangalore

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