Senior CPU Architect

1 week ago


San Jose, California, United States MIPS Technologies Full time
Job Title: Senior CPU Architect

We are seeking an experienced CPU Microarchitect to join our team at MIPS Technologies. As a Senior CPU Architect, you will be responsible for defining, leading, and owning RTL development of a real-time, performance-efficient, low-power microcontroller class CPU core.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Drive the micro-architecture and design of a critical CPU block or multiple blocks of a CPU core
  • 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
Requirements:
  • 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
    • 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 8-11 years of experience, PhD + 5-7 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 real-time microcontroller 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
  • Understanding of CPU integration at SoC level
  • Understanding of Safety and Security microarchitecture
Compensation:

The base salary range across the U.S. for this role is between $190,000-$280,000. In addition, this role may be eligible for equity, and other discretionary bonuses. MIPS offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package.

About MIPS Technologies:

MIPS Technologies is a microprocessor pioneer, having led the way in RISC-based computing to enable faster and more power-efficient semiconductors for a wide range of applications from consumer electronics to networking and communications. We are focused on delivering our first RISC-V products, the MIPS eVocore processors, which provide a new level of scalability for high-performance heterogeneous computing.



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