Chief Competitive Performance & Microarchitecture Analysis

What you'll do

• Establish the technical strategy and operating rhythm for AMD competitive CPU performance forecasting.
• Manage the predict-validate-translate cycle including workload taxonomy, architecture assumptions, and model tuning.
• Lead reviews of hardware components such as core design, cache/memory hierarchies, I/O, and power.
• Create a review discipline that distinguishes measured results from modeled inferences and uncertainty.
• Integrate x86, Arm, and cloud-custom analyses into a unified view of competitive risks and advantages.
• Deliver concise executive readouts explaining performance positions, confidence levels, and recommended actions.
• Translate technical evidence into specific feature and platform recommendations for product teams.
• Establish standards for fair benchmarking, configuration control, and data provenance.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
• Demonstrated senior technical leadership in CPU/system performance, computer architecture, performance modeling, or competitive benchmarking.
• Proven track record of translating low-level performance evidence into architecture, platform, or product decisions.
• Deep understanding of CPU pipelines, branch prediction, cache/TLB behavior, NUMA, memory bandwidth, and cross-ISA effects.
• Strong command of experimental design, benchmark fairness, configuration control, statistical interpretation, and reproducibility.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to present risk and recommendations to senior audiences.
• Experience working across architecture, software, platform, product, field, customer, and business stakeholders.
• Experience with AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon, Arm Neoverse, pre-silicon modeling, or AI host-CPU analysis (preferred).