CPU Micro-architect and RTL Design

India

Seeking experienced Micro-architect and RTL engineers to own and lead RTL development of one or more modules of a high-performance CPU core. Working knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high performance CPU core is necessary. Candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the design including Performance, Power, and Area.

Minimum Qualifications

MS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5+ years or BS degree with 7+ years of practical experience
Through 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Roles and Responsibilities

Drive the micro-architecture and design of a critical CPU block or multiple blocks of a CPU core Performance exploration - explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
Microarchitecture development and specification - From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at detailed specification.
RTL ownership - Configurable Design Features Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
Functional verification support - help the design verification team execute the functional verification strategy.
Performance verification support - help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.