CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer

We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

* 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 a detailed specification.

* RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.

* Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on 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 po

* 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

* Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

* Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.