GPU Hardware Architecture engineer Job Listing at AMD in Milton Keynes, England (Job ID 42945-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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THE ROLE: 

We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivated engineer to join our growing GFX architecture team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Architecture team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development. 

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for modern, complex GFX architecture and digital design. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems. 

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Research new architectural features for next generation GFX IP that optimizes Performance-Power-Area (PPA) and transcends product goals
• Develop models in either C++ and/or System Verilog to validate PPA of new architectural features
• Write and deliver architectural specifications to development teams (HW, SW, Firmware, etc).
• Architect new GPU algorithms to improve PPA for rendering and compute workloads
• Analyze game traces from legacy designs to optimize PPA in future architectures
• Provide technical support for Silicon bring-up teams
• Provide micro-architecture level proposals and/or review proposals from other sources for PPA optimization
• Work with teams throughout the company (Product and System Architects, RTL, PD, SW, Bring-up) to deliver best in class power solutions

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience focused on computer architecture and power, with a strong understanding of the factors influencing power efficiency at chip, system, and product levels.
• Expert at tackling multi-variable problems via system level modeling, testing and characterization, trend analysis/projection, and model verification
• Experience in
  • Computing and Graphics architecture
  • Power architecture and design
  • Creating power models to evaluate architectural tradeoffs with key workloads
  • OpenGL/OpenCL/D3D programming is a benefit
  • RTL design and/or verification is a benefit
  • Power tools / technologies is a beneift
• A drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth
• Understands GPU power/performance, SW power architecture, and system-level trade-offs

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering with 10+ years of experience or Masters in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience or PhD in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of experience
• Mastery of principles of logic and circuit design, software and hardware principles and methods relevant to more complex systems and platforms.
  

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