Principal Design Engineer - Microarchitect

We are seeking an experienced Principal Design Engineer - Microarchitect. Responsible for leading and owning RTL development of one or more modules of a high-performance CPU core. Hands-on working knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU core is required. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the design including Performance, Power, and Area. 

You will:

• 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

Ideally, you’ll have:

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: Instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction Instruction scheduling and register renaming Out-of-order execution Integer and Floating-point execution Load/Store execution, prefetching Cache and memory subsystems - Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
• MS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 10+ years or BS degree with 15+ years of practical experience

A plus if you have:

• Experience with designing RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU
• Experience with Hardware multi-threading, virtualization, and SIMD 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