Staff Engineer CPU IP Design Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced CPU IP Design Engineer. Responsible for defining, leading and owning RTL development of our latest AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the design including Functional Features, Performance, Power, and Area.

Responsibilities

• Drive the micro-architecture and design of critical blocks of the CPU core
• Design of RISC-V Vector CPU core and its custom extensions
• Design of AI-enabled Matrix engine to augment the Vector CPU
• 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
• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on working knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU core
• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas:
  • Instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction techniques
  • Instruction scheduling, register renaming, Reorder Buffer (ROB)
  • Out-of-order execution
  • Integer and Floating-point execution
  • Load/Store execution
  • Instruction and Data Prefetch
  • Vector data path
  • Cache and memory subsystems
• Knowledge of Cache coherency and memory consistency
• Knowledge of System Verilog, Verilog and/or VHDL
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
• Master's with 4-7 years of experience, PhD 2-5 years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with designing RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU
• Experience with Hardware multi-threading, virtualization, and SIMD designs
• Experience with vector and matrix-enabled CPUs, preferably RISC-V processors.
• 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
• Understanding of CPU integration at SoC level
• Understanding of Safety and Security microarchitecture

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