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As a CPU Micro-Architecture and RTL Design Engineer within the CPU Engineering group, you will develop RTL for high-performance, low-power devices using the RISC-V Architecture. You will collaborate with chip architects to conceive micro-architectures, perform performance exploration, and develop detailed specifications. Your daily responsibilities include RTL ownership, where you will develop, assess, and refine designs to meet specific power, performance, area, and timing goals. You will also provide functional and performance verification support and work with multi-functional teams on physical design implementation. Required skills include knowledge of Verilog or VHDL, logic design principles, and scripting languages like Perl or Python. You must understand microprocessor components such as branch prediction, out-of-order execution, and cache subsystems to solve complex hardware design challenges.
Explore high-performance strategies in coordination with the CPU modeling team.
Develop microarchitecture specifications from high-level exploration through detailed research.
Develop, assess, and refine RTL designs to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals.
Support the design verification team in executing the functional verification strategy.
Verify that the RTL design meets specific performance goals.
Implement and validate physical design aspects including timing, area, reliability, and testability.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in areas like branch prediction, out-of-order execution, or cache subsystems (preferred).
Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL, including experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools (preferred).
Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications (preferred).
Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques (preferred).
Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python (preferred).
RTL
Verilog
VHDL
Microarchitecture
Logic Design
Python
Perl
Verdi
Simulation
Waveform Debugging
Instruction Fetch and Decode
Branch Prediction
Out-of-Order Execution
Cache and Memory Subsystems
Power and Area Tradeoffs