Principal Competitive CPU Performance Forecaster & Data Scientist - TX, Home Office, United States
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role involves owning the quantitative forecasting system for competitive server CPU performance. You will combine architecture assumptions, workload measurements, software trends, platform data, and partner validation into forward-looking predictions with explicit confidence ranges.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain a forecasting framework linking CPU architecture, memory, I/O, power, operating-system and runtime behavior, and workload kernels.
- Create performance, performance-per-watt, and price-performance forecasts with confidence ranges.
- Build scenarios for uncertain competitor attributes like frequency, core count, memory bandwidth, and launch timing.
- Track prediction error by workload, competitor, forecast horizon, and model version, then decompose errors and tune the model.
- Develop normalized competitive scorecards across workload performance, efficiency, TCO, memory, and I/O.
- Fuse benchmark results, performance counters, partner telemetry, and public roadmaps while preserving source provenance.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- Understanding of CPU and system performance to model causality.
- Understanding of statistics to avoid false precision.
- Experience with provenance, versioning, and calibration.
- Ability to make uncertainty understandable to engineers and executives.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated experience building quantitative models for technical or business decisions under uncertainty.
- Strong programming and data-analysis skills in Python or an equivalent analytical environment.
- Expertise in defining meaningful error metrics, calibration methods, and sensitivity analyses for sparse or biased data.
- Working knowledge of server CPU and system performance.
- Experience with reproducible data pipelines, versioning, notebooks or scripts, and source provenance.
- Strong visualization, writing, and presentation skills for technical and executive audiences.
- Judgment about when a model is useful, overfit, or unsupported by evidence.
- CPU or GPU performance prediction, pre-silicon modeling, capacity planning, forecasting or benchmark analytics.
- Bayesian modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, probabilistic programming or uncertainty quantification.
- Experience combining structured benchmark data with semi-structured roadmap, software-change or market evidence.
- Cross-ISA or cloud-instance price-performance analysis.
- Familiarity with platform economics, TCO, rack power or density.
Skills: CPU architecture, performance forecasting, workload measurements, system performance, data analysis
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 66-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
451
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Median days open
66 d
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Median salary
$238k
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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 (451 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 35 | 451 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 249 | 3012 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 71 d | 66 d (+5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $238k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU architecture, performance forecasting, workload measurements, system performance, data analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 68 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA · 61 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD (this employer) · 35 open roles · median 71 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 86 d
- Renesas Electronics · 21 open roles · median 85 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 19 open roles · median 88 d
How we counted: 451 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 62 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 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.