Database Performance Engineer

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:

The right engineer will drive the success of power IP (Intellectual Property) and features in AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) products through leadership & coordination, resolution of technical dependencies, and achievement of schedule commits. This is a high-visibility and widely multi-functional role, spanning pre-silicon architecture to post-silicon implementation & product delivery.

THE PERSON:

Your curiosity will drive your learning and innovation to improve how we as a group, and an organization, can get better every day. Your peers will provide you a results-oriented and encouraging environment for your career growth, fueling your opportunity to be a part of Delighting Our Customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the RDBMS Performance Optimization for EPYC products

• Work across engineering teams and subject areas spanning silicon, firmware, hardware, and software
• Coordinate debug of issues and drive them to closure
• Pull together meetings, set up clear agendas and follow up on action items
• Deliver regular progress updates toward program goals
• Make tough decisions such as priority calls based on partial or incomplete data

• Proactively drive continuous improvement for post-silicon power and performance activities
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Product development or systems engineering background with hardware platforms and their software & firmware ecosystems

• Excellent verbal communication and written, presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, analytical, planning, and technical leadership skills
• Proven record of accomplishment in delivering large multi-functional product solutions
• Experience working in a fast-paced matrixed technical organization and multi-site environment
• Experience with performance analysis on a number of industry standard benchmarks such as TPC, SPEC, etc.
• Experience with performance profiling tools
• Experience with Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Oracle preferred

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering or equivalent

LOCATION:
Santa Clara, CA OR Austin, TX

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