Manager, Software Performance Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc is a company focused on next-generation computing experiences including AI, data centers, PCs, gaming, and embedded systems.

• 8+ years of experience in software development, focusing on performance engineering or systems programming
• 3+ years of experience managing or leading engineering teams
• Strong technical background in C/C++ or systems-level programming, performance profiling and optimization techniques, operating systems, and modern CPU architecture concepts
• Proven track record delivering complex engineering projects

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in performance domains such as CPU/GPU optimization, benchmarking and workload analysis, browser, OS, or application performance
• Familiarity with tools such as profilers, performance analyzers, and benchmarking frameworks
• Experience working with global and distributed teams
• Exposure to open-source ecosystems and ISV collaboration

Leadership Profile:

• Results-oriented leader with strong execution discipline
• Able to operate at both technical depth and organizational scale
• Strong communicator capable of aligning diverse stakeholders
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and scaling teams in a growing organization

Team Leadership & People Management:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 10–15 performance engineers across Europe
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development aligned with SPE growth objectives
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence, accountability, and execution
• Provide regular feedback, coaching, and performance management

Program & Project Ownership:

• Own delivery of multiple concurrent development and optimization projects
• Define project scope, timelines, and success criteria tied to benchmark and application performance improvements
• Ensure consistent execution against milestones, with clear tracking and reporting
• Balance strategic initiatives with near-term deliverables

Technical Leadership:

• Guide the team in performance analysis, bottleneck identification, and optimization strategies
• Ensure strong grounding in application performance profiling and analysis, benchmark development and validation, and system-level hardware/software co-optimization
• Partner with architecture and silicon teams to translate insights into product impact
• Promote data-driven decision-making and reproducible performance results

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with global SPE teams across US, India, and Europe to align priorities and execution
• Work closely with internal architecture and platform teams and external ISVs and ecosystem partners
• Drive co-engineering efforts to improve performance in real-world applications and benchmarks

Strategic Impact:

• Contribute to defining SPE priorities in competitive performance analysis, benchmark strategy and methodology, and ecosystem and open-source optimization efforts
• Identify opportunities to expand impact across new workloads, platforms, and partners

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