Power Performance Optimization Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Taipei City (Job ID 74399-en-us)

Description

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At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

THE ROLE:

As part of the Power and Performance Optimization group, the Client Power Optimization team provides power and battery life engineering expertise on AMD mobile and desktop platforms. The core purpose of the team is to deliver high-quality power assessments of our products/platforms, which benefits the following areas:

• Product Development: Pre-production battery life characterization and optimization
• Marketing: AMD product definition/power-performance trade-offs
• Customer: Root-cause resolution of customer battery life and performance issues

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzing interactions between various power management features and optimizing their configurations for power and performance at customer platforms.
• Work along with Power, Platform, and SOC Architects to improve power models used for future programs
• Executing MSFT ADK tests
• Executing power characterization plans for power management features.
• Setting up systems and power measurement equipment for automated test framework.
• Proactively driving continuous improvement for post-silicon power characterization related procedure and customers' design platform Battery Life and performance attainment

 PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Good understanding of computer/SoC architecture and ACPI specification
• Good understanding of board layout and schematics
• PC Notebook design/support Background, prefer in PC OEM/ODM EE team or IHV/ISV Application Engineer team
• PC/Hardware Design in some form at circuit board to production
• Working knowledge of Windows OS and software
• Must be involved in the power performance optimization and share past scenarios doing so
• Power/thermal management experience is an asset
• Experience working in a lab environment, including use of oscilloscopes, multimeters, soldering iron
• Experience running performance benchmark and battery life benchmark are big plus
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Excel
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

ADACEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field plus 10+ years of industry experience.

LOCATION:

Taipei

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