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As an AI Engineering & Methodology Architect within the CPU Engineering group, you will operate at the intersection of artificial intelligence, RTL design, and design verification to enhance engineering productivity. You will identify inefficiencies in the development cycle and eliminate them by building tools, workflows, infrastructure, and automated systems that accelerate RTL development, simplify verification environment creation, and reduce debug turnaround times. Your role involves leveraging large language models, agentic systems, and advanced analytics to transform how teams write code, review designs, and analyze results from massive datasets. You will evaluate emerging technologies to create production-quality solutions for the design and verification organizations. The core work focuses on solving the complexity of modern CPU development by integrating AI into established engineering practices to improve consistency and scale across various programs and geographies.