Sr Software System Designer

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SENIOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS DESIGNER

  

THE ROLE:  

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior System Software Designer to design and build next-generation profiling and performance analysis tools for AMD platforms. This role involves developing advanced capabilities across CPU, GPU, and system-level profiling, enabling customers and internal teams to analyze and optimize application performance at scale.

The candidate will work on tools such as AMD uProf and related performance analysis frameworks, focusing on deep system visibility, low-overhead data collection, and actionable performance insights.

 

  

THE PERSON:  

As a Software Systems Design Engineer, you will deliver our next generation of products in the computer graphics industry – 3D Gaming, Display Technologies, Compute, Virtual Reality, etc. In this high visibility position, your systems engineering expertise will be necessary to define products, develop solutions, assess root causes, and produce solution resolutions. As a senior member of the team, taking initiative in mentoring to achieve the team’s goal of on time delivery is expected.

  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Design and develop system-level profiling tools spanning CPU, memory, IO, and power analysis
• Build and optimize data collection frameworks leveraging hardware counters (PMC), IBS, and OS tracing
• Develop low-overhead profiling infrastructure for large-scale and long-running workloads
• Enhance performance analysis pipelines including data processing, correlation, and visualization
• Enable cross-platform profiling support across Linux, Windows, and emerging OS ecosystems (e.g., FreeBSD)
• Work on advanced analysis techniques such as top-down microarchitecture analysis, pipeline utilization, and bottleneck detection
• Contribute to CLI and GUI-based tools for performance debugging and visualization
• Integrate support for runtime and framework-level tracing (OpenMP, MPI, Java, Python, etc.)
• Collaborate with CPU, GPU, kernel, and compiler teams to enable new hardware features in profiling tools
• Drive automation and intelligent analysis, including AI/ML-assisted performance insights
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and roadmap planning
  

• Hands-on experience with performance profiling tools (e.g., AMD uProf, perf, VTune, rocProfiler)
• Strong understanding of microarchitecture concepts (pipelines, caches, branch prediction, memory hierarchy)
• Experience working with hardware performance counters (PMC), IBS, or similar sampling techniques
• Familiarity with OS internals (Linux kernel, schedulers, memory management, tracing frameworks)
• Experience with distributed/HPC workloads (MPI, OpenMP, large-scale systems)
• Exposure to trace analysis, call stacks, and sampling-based profiling models
• Knowledge of container environments and system-level debugging is a plus
• Experience contributing to cross-platform tools and frameworks
  

• Bachelors or master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering.   
• Master’s degree preferred.