Originally posted 31 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a CPU Cores Performance Lead, you will provide technical and team leadership for performance development of AMD's CPU cores, leading a local team while partnering across architecture and implementation teams.
What you'll do
- Lead a local CPU Core Performance team focused on performance analysis and optimization for CPU cores.
- Provide technical leadership for core performance, guiding performance strategy, priorities, analysis, and optimization throughout the development lifecycle.
- Partner with Core Architecture and RTL teams to deliver CPU cores that meet or exceed program performance objectives.
- Collaborate across Performance Modeling, Architecture, RTL, DV, Physical Design, correlation, and post-silicon teams to identify and resolve performance opportunities and bottlenecks.
- Drive performance investigations from initial hypothesis through analysis, root-cause identification, optimization, and validation.
- Develop engineers through coaching, technical mentorship, clear priorities, and expanding technical responsibilities.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- Extensive experience in CPU performance analysis, optimization, architecture, or performance modeling, with demonstrated delivery of measurable CPU performance improvements.
- Experience leading engineers or significant cross-functional CPU performance efforts.
- Working knowledge of CPU performance development, including early performance investigation, Core Architecture, performance modeling, analysis and correlation, RTL optimization, and post-silicon performance validation.
- Strong understanding of modern CPU microarchitecture and performance interactions across the front-end, execution, and memory subsystem.
- Demonstrated ability to identify performance bottlenecks, develop hypotheses, analyze complex workloads, and translate findings into actionable architecture or implementation changes.
Skills: CPU performance analysis, Core Architecture, RTL teams, processor technology, performance modeling, Post-Silicon Performance Validation, x86-64
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This role has been open 67 days — well below the 79-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
486
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Median days open
79 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$230k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (486 roles · 67 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 40 | 486 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 276 | 3516 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 66 d | 79 d (−13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU performance analysis, Core Architecture, RTL teams, processor technology, performance modeling, Post-Silicon Performance Validation
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 80 open roles · median 90 d
- NVIDIA · 66 open roles · median 80 d
- AMD (this employer) · 40 open roles · median 66 d
- Apple · 28 open roles · median 11 d
- Arm Holdings · 28 open roles · median 10 d
- Micron Technology · 20 open roles · median 110 d
How we counted: 486 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 67 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 7 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.