Principal Silicon Firmware, Algorithms & Power Architect

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AMD s Computing and Graphics business unit is seeking a Principal-level technical leader to drive next-generation power architecture, firmware, algorithms, and software interfaces across AMD client and handheld SoCs. In this highly influential role, you will help define the power management architecture for future AMD platforms—driving innovation from early concept and definition, through design execution, and into post-silicon validation. You will collaborate closely with SoC and platform architects, IP and physical design teams, software and firmware engineering, silicon validation, and packaging teams to deliver breakthrough improvements in power efficiency, performance per watt, and battery life.

This is an opportunity to have a direct and visible impact on AMD s most advanced products. This senior role will stretch you as you lead architecture teams in new directions, network with our world s, patent-holding think-tank, and negotiate among design teams, marketing, and business unit executives.

You are a deep technical thinker with strong problem solving and communication skills. You excel at explaining complex concepts through publications, presentations, or executive briefings. You thrive in highly collaborative environments, mentor others naturally, and raise the collective expertise of the teams around you. You combine practical hands-  skills with system- l vision, and you are energized by building algorithms and firmware that shape silicon behavior.

• Develop and architect new power algorithms and software features using state- - -  techniques, including classifiers, regression models, machine learning approaches for CPU/GPU power and performance optimization.
• Define and implement software interfaces that influence and optimize hardware behavior across the SoC.
• Prototype and develop new firmware for complex power control algorithms throughout the SoC roadmap.

• Profile emerging NN and LLM (Agentic) workloads on client platforms; tune algorithms to optimize power during active, high- , and interactive usage scenarios.
• Analyze power and performance benchmarks to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.

• Architect, implement, and optimize control software and firmware features to achieve product- l power targets.
• Drive cross-organization alignment for innovative power reduction methodologies and ensure convergence across design teams.
• Collaborate with global architecture and design teams to implement and validate SoC power- gement solutions.
• Optimize real PC use cases for both absolute power and performance per watt.

• Work directly with development boards to prototype new features and evaluate new power features.
• Conduct software tracing, firmware debugging, and activity profiling to diagnose issues and drive improvements.

• Experience profiling software workloads on CPUs and GPUs.
• Knowledge of defining low- l software interfaces to influence hardware performance and power behavior.
• Background in SoC hardware design, clock distribution, power delivery and performance.
• Experience profiling and tuning hardware/software stacks to achieve power and performance efficiency on benchmark workloads.
• Prior algorithm development in C or Python; MATLAB experience preferred.
• Expertise in algorithm…