Performance Validation Engineer

Job Title: Performance Validation Engineer

Location: 7171 Southwest Pkwy, Austin, TX 78735 (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months Contract on W2

Job Description:

Role:

• Performance engineering role focused on benchmark development, execution, and performance validation of next generation server architecture and AI accelerators.

Education:

• Bachelors degree is required for candidates.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Analyzing benchmarks and performance characteristics of next generation AMD servers and AI Accelerators.
• Develop and maintain benchmark workloads, configuration files, build and run scripts.
• Research trade-offs for our server architecture, especially as related to the memory hierarchy, storage systems, scheduling, and I/O devices.
• Collect data from benchmark results, data from CPU performance counters, and other related performance information to identify bottlenecks and other performance limitations of the benchmark itself, SoC and system.
• Evaluate system performance by executing industry standard benchmarks (SPEC CPU, STREAM, HPL, DGEMM, SPECjbb, etc.) with reproducible methodologies across platforms.
• Collaborate with compiler and OS teams to perform code level analysis to improve benchmark performance and stability.

Required Experience:

• Experience using Linux performance analysis tools and methods.
• Experience executing industry standard benchmarks or other performance test workloads.
• Test automation experience.
• Highly motivated independent contributor with a strong desire to learn and develop a deep understanding of the technology.
• Understanding of computer system architecture.
• Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++. BASH, Python, etc).
• Experience working with different compilers (GCC/LLVM/AOCC), optimizations techniques (LTO, OpenMP etc.); NUMA pinning/affinity strategies.
• Experience with benchmarks such as STREAM, Multichase, SPECCPU2017, HPL, DGEMM, GUPS, SPECJbb and others.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience benchmarking memory technologies such as DDR5, CXL, HBM and others.
• Experience with vectorization/SIMD tuning; memory allocator selection.
• Experience with analyzing and reproducing public benchmark results and understanding of run rules.