Client Power Engineer

THE ROLE:

The successful candidate will assume responsibility for leading post-silicon activities related to SOC power management design, development, characterization and tuning for AMD APU products.

With AMD's Client engineering teams, you will be exposed to the world’s best Desktop/PC and Mobile CPU, GPU and APU processors for accelerated system computing power. As an AMD Client Engineer you will have visibility to cutting edge multi-layered security features, H-Series processors optimized for gamers and creators, and U-Series processors optimized for thin and light notebooks. In addition, you will learn how AMD achieves unprecedented performance and battery life with 7nm “Zen 3” core architecture. Zen is delivering a 19% IPC and up to 26% gaming performance generational uplift, with power efficiency up to 2.8X greater than the performance-per-watt of our competition. Come join our world class client engineering team providing rapid career growth advancement, and access to cutting edge client technologies, through its year over year record-breaking market share, product performance and revenue gains!


The person:

We are looking for a hard-working hands-on engineer to join our highly visible team to deliver power efficient products to millions of users worldwide.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement post-silicon power analysis and optimization work
• Analyze interactions between various power management features and optimizing their configurations for power and performance
• Develop and maintain Python and Perl scripts used for power data analysis
• Work along with Power, Platform, and SOC Architects to improve power models used for future programs
• Work with multi-functional teams to improve post-silicon power optimization test strategy, methodology and process
• Lead collaborative technical discussions to drive resolution on technical issues
• Provide hands on leadership to meet program development goals
• Be able to work in high demand and fast-paced environment
• Setting up systems and power measurement equipment for automated test framework

Preferred experience:

• Strong understanding of low power computing features and benefits
• Experience with SOC and PCB level power delivery network
• Experience with scripting languages, Python/Perl etc
• Familiar with PC industry development cycles and production workflow
• Comfortable working in a lab environment
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
• Demonstrate ability to debug issues and quickly identify viable solutions
• Team player with proven leadership skills
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and/or workload analysis

Academic credentials:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science with emphasis on computer architecture and/or workload analysis