Performance Software Development Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 27 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks as a senior software engineer in Software Performance Engineering. You will work with the very latest hardware and software technology to extract performance.
What you'll do
- Identify and analyze AMD strengths and weaknesses in application performance, finding performance bottlenecks
- Use available tools and/or source code to determine the nature of identified bottlenecks
- Design solutions or workarounds to mitigate identified bottlenecks
- Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
- Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
- Contribute performance improvements to open-source projects and identify other applications that may benefit
What you'll need
- Experience identifying performance bottlenecks on any platform
- Deep Knowledge of C/C++ programming
- Experience using CPU profilers such as vTune, WPA, MSVS Performance Profiler
- Knowledge of SIMD instructions such as SSE, AVX, NEON
- Knowledge of modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
- Knowledge of CPU architecture
- Familiarity with modern source version control such as Git, Mercurial
Nice to have
- Experience developing highly parallel applications and algorithms
- Experience with power/performance tuning
- Knowledge of modern compiler toolchains and optimizations
- Knowledge of x86/x64 assembly language and special instructions
- Knowledge of interpreted languages such as Python and JavaScript
- Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
Skills: performance benchmarking, automation frameworks, cross-platform solutions, CPU, GPU, memory, storage, performance analysis
This role has been open 49 days — below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 55 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 404 | 6127 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 21 d | 50 d (−29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: performance benchmarking, automation frameworks, cross-platform solutions, CPU, GPU, memory, storage, performance analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD (this employer) · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.