CPU Micro-architect

3 days ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Qualcomm Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year

General Summary:

General Summary

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.

Roles And Responsibilities

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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 low power microarchitecture techniques
  • Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
  • Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. ORMaster's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. ORPhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

2+ years of experience with circuit design (e.g., digital, analog, RF).

2+ years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit simulation software.

2+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF tools, etc.

1+ year in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Leverages advanced Hardware knowledge and experience to plan, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems.

Integrates complex features and functionality into hardware designs in line with proposals or roadmaps for complex products.

Conducts complex simulations and analyses of designs as well as implements designs with the best power, performance, and area.

Collaborates with cross-functional teams (e.g., design, verification, validation, software and systems engineering, architecture development teams, etc.) to implement new requirements and incorporate the latest test solutions in the production program to improve the yield, test time, and quality.

Evaluates, characterizes, and develops the novel manufacturing of solutions for leading edge products in the most advanced processes and bring-up product to meet customer expectations and schedules.

Evaluates reliability of critical materials, properties, and techniques and brings innovation, automation, and optimization to maximize productivity.

Evaluates complex design features to identify potential flaws, compatibility issues, and/or compliance issues.

Writes detailed technical documentation for complex Hardware projects.

Level of Responsibility:

Works independently with minimal supervision.

Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.

Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.

Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc.

Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions.



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