Sr Software Development Engineer, GPU Performance Tools

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SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, GPU Performance Tools

THE ROLE: 

The tools developers seek to understand system and GPU performance at a deep level to ensure AMD delivers the best products for solving the world's most challenging problems in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Application Characterization engineers develop tools and methodologies that identify the most promising HPC and AI application performance enhancements within the system hardware/software stack and work with other team members to prioritize design changes. These engineers utilize a broad set of software skills backed by a solid understanding of system architecture.

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Run data center GPU-accelerated workloads while collecting system perforamance data that you will use to conduct performance analysis
• Create insightful, graphically rich dashboards that characterize an application's performance profile
• Develop tools and leverage automation to speed the process of identifying performance improvement opportunities
• Use performance analysis and data science tools as needed to identify performance blockers
• Create a library of application performance profiles that are relevant and representative for data center GPU customers
• Provide feedback to hardware and software design team members as part of a continuous design improvement cycle

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong Python and/or object-oriented programming background with C/C in a Linux development environment

• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail 
• Experience with web application development frameworks and CSS/HTML programming
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, InfluxDB and MySQL
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus 
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills 
• Inquiring mind with efficiency mentality

NICE TO HAVE EXPERIENCE: 

• Data visualization
• Ansible
• Grafana
• Jupyter

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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