CPU Physical Design Methodology Sr Staff Engineer – CPU Engineering

CPU Physical Design Methodology Sr Staff Engineer – CPU Engineering

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree 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.
• OR Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Leverages advanced knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to develop and verify critical high performance and low power CPU designs.
• Anticipates, identifies, and solves highly complex problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.
• Evaluates all aspects of the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.
• Writes detailed technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for highly complex CPU designs; reviews documentation of junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of work experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
• 10+ years of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).
• 10+ years of work experience with simulators and/or waveform debugging tools (e.g., Verilog, VHDL, etc.).
• 10+ years of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.
• 10+ years of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.
• 10+ years of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.
• 3+ years experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• 1+ year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).