PMTS Systems Design Eng
Advanced Micro Devices
- Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own performance/watt attainment for mobile client APU products supporting with continuous test, debug, analysis, & defect resolution throughout the course of a program.
- Work closely with the System Architect to set power and performance attainment objectives.
- Develop methodologies to optimize HW and SW power management to maximize performance and user-experience on AC and on DC power.
- Drive Mission Mode PnP product bounding box attainment, definition of full product stack, and produce advisory data to customers on same.
- Provide relevant inputs to drive PnP teams in creation of strategies & test plans for product-specific performance/watt, features, and target market spaces as appropriate; identify risks & build mitigation plans.
- Oversee execution teams hardware & resource planning for the pertinent product space addressing product needs.
- Lead cross-functional technical teams in the triage, debug and resolution of PnP issues.
- Engage with cross-functional leadership to integrate deliverables with project work streams.
- Engage with customer engineering and the customers on power and performance optimization problems, promptly resolve issues.
- Feedback improvement areas to the various teams, including the power management architecture, IP, SoC, O/S, FW, and silicon enablement team
- Collaborate with other engineering teams on common program test & debug activities and process improvements.
- Brings depth and expertise in product performance-per-watt attainment tradeoffs.
- Expert at tackling multi-variable problems via system level modeling, testing and characterization, trend analysis/projection, and model verification.
- Speaks SW not just HW - understand system-level power management trade-offs, both at HW and SW levels.
- Understands system-level thermal, power, frequency, and/or voltage limited workload behavior, and the impact of hardware design trade-offs on the limiters.
- Understands CPU core design and architecture at micro-architecture, L2/L3 cache design hierarchy, and core complex CCX-level.
- Understands physical design and RTL-level trade-offs to attained best performance-per-watt for product IP mix and variations.
- Understands GPU power/performance, SW power management, and system-level trade-offs.
- Understands multimedia and peripheral IP SW/HW power management and optimal perf/watt attainment strategies.
- Effective with communication and building respect while communicating status to executive level audience.
- Accomplished listener who can analyze, abstract, communicate the big picture, and bring along the team.
- Develop strong partnerships with program stakeholders across the organization and development partners outside the organization.
- Excellent verbal communication and written, presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, analytical, planning, and technical management skills.
- Product development with hardware platforms and their software & firmware ecosystems.
- Experience in the PC architecture space and familiarity with hands-on system setup & testing and the care abouts for power and power and performance data collection hygiene.
- Direct technical experience on APU/CPU system performance analysis and micro-architectural power management.
- Proven ability to deliver large cross-functional technical deliverables.
- Experience working in a fast-paced matrixed technical organization and multi-site environment.