Compiler Performance Engineer

Role Description

Do you love tuning to extract every last bit of performance? If so, AMD is looking for a Senior Compiler Performance Engineer for a high impact role in Software Performance Engineering focused on improving and understanding the performance of key applications and benchmarks.

You will be a member of a core team of high-talent industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance, finding performance bottlenecks.
• Analyze compiler generated code, including x86 and ARM assembly.
• Write and refactor code to take advantage of compiler optimizations, such as auto-vectorization.
• Work with AMD’s compiler specialists to improve code generation quality.
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts.
• Research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work and promote these to software vendors.
• Contribute performance improvements to open-source projects and identify other applications that may benefit.
• Develop technical relationships with your peers at our partner software vendors.
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially in compilers and architecture.
• Be a specialist in the performance characteristics of mainstream CPUs.
• Some travel may be involved as you visit our partners at their locations as needed for co-engineering efforts and education.

Qualifications

• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform.
• Knowledge of modern compiler toolchains and optimizations.
• Deep Knowledge of C/C++ programming.
• Knowledge of x86/x64 assembly language and special instructions.
• Experience using CPU profilers such as vTune, WPA, MSVS Performance Profiler.
• Knowledge of CPU architecture.
• Familiarity with modern source version control such as Git, Mercurial.
• Excellent communication skills and able to work with partners effectively.
• Self-starter, passionate about performance.

Bonus Experience

• Knowledge of modern concurrent programming and threading APIs.
• Knowledge of SIMD instructions such as SSE, AVX, NEON.
• Experience developing highly parallel applications and algorithms.
• Experience with power/performance tuning.
• Knowledge of interpreted languages such as Python and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments.

Academic Credentials

• At least a BS/MS in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance.