Sr. Staff Design Engineer - CPU Microarchitect
We are seeking an experienced CPU Microarchitect. Responsible for defining, leading and owning RTL development of a real-time, performance efficient, low-power microcontroller class CPU core. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the design including Functional Features, Performance, Power, and Area. You will:
Instruction scheduling, register renaming, Reorder Buffer (ROB)
Out-of-order execution
Integer and Floating-point execution
Load/Store execution
Instruction and Data Prefetch
Cache and memory subsystems
- Drive the micro-architecture and design of a critical CPU block or multiple blocks of a CPU core
- Explore high-performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team
- Perform Microarchitecture development and specification- from early high-level architectural exploration, through microarchitectural research and arrive at detailed specifications
- Configure Design Features Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
- Perform Functional verification support and assist in the design verification strategy
- Assist with the verification of RTL design performance goals
- Partner with a multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power
- Hands-on working knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU core
- Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Instruction scheduling, register renaming, Reorder Buffer (ROB)
Out-of-order execution
Integer and Floating-point execution
Load/Store execution
Instruction and Data Prefetch
Cache and memory subsystems
- Knowledge of Cache coherency and memory consistency
- Knowledge of System Verilog, Verilog and/or VHDL
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
- Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
- Master’s with 8-11 years of experience, PhD + 5-7 years of work experience
- Experience with designing RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU
- Experience with Hardware multi-threading, virtualization, and SIMD designs
- Experience with real-time microcontroller designs
- Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
- Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques
- Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python
- Understanding of CPU integration at SoC level
- Understanding of Safety and Security microarchitecture
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Seniority level
Not Applicable -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology -
Industries
Semiconductor Manufacturing
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