What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Performance Validation Engineer position at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc?
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THE TEAM:
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THE ROLE:
The successful candidate will assume responsibility for post-silicon activities related to performance characterization and optimization of AMD Datacenter products
THE PERSON:
You have a passion for computer architecture, along with knowledge of HPC and ML workloads. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/time zones. Must be a quick learner, self-starter and be able to drive multiple tasks to completion.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Become a key stakeholder in power and performance definition process
- Develop and Execute performance characterization and optimization test plans for different usage scenarios (High performance compute, Machine learning frameworks, etc.).
- Analyzing interactions between various power management features and optimize their configurations for performance
- Exploit core architecture bottlenecks to test and mitigate worst case scenarios
- Support prototyping experiments for improving current and implementing new features that impact performance
- Debugging and troubleshooting system-level issues that may occur in test environments and platforms
- Proactively driving continuous improvement for post-silicon performance activities
- Workload automation for performance data collection
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Strong programming skills: Strong preference for Python, TensorFlow
- Desirable to be proficient in C or C , PHP and Shell scripting
- Good understanding of computer organization/architecture.
- Strong understanding of HPC and ML workloads
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a key attention to detail
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering/Computer Science/Software Engineering
LOCATION: Austin, TX
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