CPU Core Data Analytics Engineer - Physical Design

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THE ROLE:

AMD's Cores Organization delivers industry-leading CPUs that power AMD's server, client, gaming, and AI products. We are seeking a highly motivated professional relevant experience in silicon design, data analytics, or engineering program support to join this innovative team. This role involves designing, developing, and deploying pre-silicon design metrics that set the global standard for tracking and reporting CPU engineering progress. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with program management and engineering leadership to gather requirements, define dashboards and reports, and adapt solutions to evolving needs. This is a key contributor role for AMD's next-generation cores, based in Austin, Texas.

THE PERSON:

The candidate should have strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to details. We work on programs with long timelines, so self-motivation and commitment to meeting deadlines is required. We are pushing the envelope on chip performance, so the status quo must be challenged on every program. This requires creativity and innovation, but also excellent verbal and written communication skills. We work in small teams, but we are part of a large cross-site Core's organization, so teamwork is also vital our success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for driving business processes and analytics that enable effective and efficient engineering of CPUs
• Design, maintain & publish reports, and dashboards utilized as a standard for the engineering team
• Partner and collaborate with stakeholders to inform development and enable program evaluation of design quality and schedule
• Drive adoption and operational rigor across the organization through gap analysis and proactive & creative problem solving

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Ability to work with large, complex data sets and database building
• Advanced Proficiency in SQL (Structured Query Language): Expertise in writing and optimizing complex queries, stored procedures, joins, and views to extract and transform data efficiently from relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL).
• Skilled in using programming languages like Python (with libraries like Pandas and NumPy) or R to identify inconsistencies, handle missing values, reshape, merge, and clean terabytes of raw data for analysis.
• Exceptional analytical and data processing skills using tools like PowerBI, SQL, MS Project/Excel
• Knowledge of VLSI design concepts & tradeoffs
• Familiar with programming languages such as Perl, C, tcl, etc.
• Basic understanding of computer architecture
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS EE, BS CS, BS CE, BA CIS, BA CS

LOCATION:

Austin, TX

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