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What you do at AMD changes everything 
 

At AMD, we push the boundaries of what is possible.  We believe in changing the world for the better by driving innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies – building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the data center. 
 

Developing great technology takes more than talent: it takes amazing people who understand collaboration, respect, and who will go the “extra mile” to achieve unthinkable results.  It takes people who have the passion and desire to disrupt the status quo, push boundaries, deliver innovation, and change the world.   If you have this type of passion, we invite you to take a look at the opportunities available to come join our team.
 

What You Do At AMD Changes Everything

At AMD, we push the boundaries of what is possible. We believe in changing the world for the better by driving innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies – building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the data center.

Developing great technology takes more than talent: it takes amazing people who understand collaboration, respect, and who will go the “extra mile” to achieve unthinkable results. It takes people who have the passion and desire to disrupt the status quo, push boundaries, deliver innovation, and change the world. If you have this type of passion, we invite you to take a look at the opportunities available to come join our team.

Infrastructure and Solution Performance Engineer/Architect – Clouds (AWS, Azure, Google)

The Role

We are seeking a Infrastructure and Solution Performance Engineer/Architect for Cloud Solutions and Performamnce Benchmarks driving the adoption of AMD technologies for cloud-native applications. In this role you will play a technical subject matter expert role and will be an integral part in the Software and Application Engineering team, working closely with Cloud vendors with mega DCs, such as AWS, Azure etc.. You will champion the optimization of AMD-based HW for running operating systems, containers, databases, analytics on the cloud instances to enable Cloud First customers to use AMD-powered Cloud partners. You are the technical lead for optimizing advanced AMD technology differentiators for a broad range of applications benchmarks running on clouds including business analytics, relational and non-relational databases, management and monitoring tools, internet of things, and artificial intelligence for the edge, datacenter and cloud environments.

Preferred Experience
 

• Significant hands-on expertise in optimizing and running SW workloads and benchmarks tuning for x86 CPU Memory configuration and storage sub systems on the AMD-powered  Clouds such as AWS, Azure and others.
• Experience in running performance tools like SPEC, TPCC etc. for optimizing running of workloads on the clouds
• Deep knowledge of cloud services and deploying/testing workloads on AWS, Azure and other cloud-based IaaS or PaaS
• Experience in creating optimal infrastructure configurations and optimization best practices or recommendations for various workload types on various infrastructure environments – onpremise and Clouds.  
• Technical issue management and product engineering feedback and influencer to for making AMD technology better
• Deep understanding of different software stacks including OS, DB technologies run on the clouds
• Significant experience in cloud native applications, workload optimization, programming models
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with experience in writing white papers, interacting with customers, partners and representing AMD technology to the cloud vendors
   

Academic Credentials
 

• BS or MS in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field

Requisition Number: 72881 
Country: United States State: California City: Santa Clara 
Job Function: Design 

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