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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors
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JOB TITLE: Principal Competitive Analysis, Custom Silicon Architect - DC GPU
AMD is seeking a Principal Competitive Architect Specialist to lead competitive intelligence and performance analysis for custom silicon used in AI and data center computing. You will build a fact-based view of competing accelerators, platforms, and software capabilities to provide clear recommendations for product and business leaders. Your daily responsibilities include conducting market research, designing repeatable benchmarks, and evaluating hardware performance directly in cloud environments. You will use skills in performance engineering, workload modeling, and data analysis to assess efficiency and scalability. The role requires deep knowledge of processors, AI accelerators, system architecture, and software stacks. You will solve the business problem of identifying strategic differentiation and roadmap priorities by translating complex technical findings into executive-ready narratives regarding custom silicon across hyperscalers and cloud providers.
Develop and maintain comprehensive competitive assessments including feature matrices, pricing analyses, and market landscape reviews.
Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, and go-to-market motions.
Evaluate competitive performance hands-on using publicly available cloud instances and accessible software environments.
Design and execute repeatable benchmarks to assess performance, efficiency, scalability, and cost across representative workloads.
Create executive-ready insights to influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, pricing, and investment decisions.
Establish repeatable processes and tooling for collecting, validating, and distributing competitive intelligence across the company.
Partner with Product Management and engineering teams to identify areas of strategic differentiation and validate technical conclusions.
What we're looking for
BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
Extensive experience in competitive analysis, product strategy, performance engineering, or related roles in semiconductors, cloud computing, or AI infrastructure.
Deep understanding of processors, AI accelerators, custom silicon, system architecture, software stacks, and cloud deployment models.
Hands-on experience evaluating hardware or software performance in cloud environments, including benchmark design and data collection.
Ability to create concise, executive-ready narratives connecting technical findings to product, pricing, roadmap, and investment decisions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence across technical and business organizations.
Experience analyzing custom silicon developed by hyperscalers, cloud providers, or AI infrastructure companies (preferred).
Familiarity with AI workloads, HPC, networking, memory systems, compilers, and performance optimization (preferred).
x86
Arm
CPU Architecture
Performance Modeling
Benchmarking
NUMA
TLB
I/O
Statistical Interpretation
Silicon Performance Counters
Platform Telemetry
Experimental Design
CPU Microarchitecture
Performance Modeling
System Architecture
Hardware Performance Counters
NUMA
TLB
PCIe
CXL
HBM
DDR
data-analysis
Scripting
Virtualization
HPC
Power Modeling
ISA
Telemetry
Bottleneck Analysis
GPU Architecture
Memory Systems
CUDA
PPA) analysis
RTL Simulation
Emulation
Verilog
VHDL
C
C++
Ansys Power Artist
Synopsys PTPX
High-Performance Computing
Scripting Languages