Cpu Memory Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Texas, Austin, United States

This role focuses on designing, developing, and building custom memory circuits (SRAMs, ROMs, register files, caches) for Intel CPUs and SOCs. Responsibilities include technical readiness, circuit design, characterization, simulations, PPA optimization, and methodology definition within advanced CMOS process technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. designing, developing, and building full-custom as well as compiler-based SRAMs, Large Signal Arrays (custom multi-ported register file), ROMs, custom memories, digital circuits and Caches for Intel CPU and SOCs.
  2. Technical readiness, memory circuit design, characterization and simulations.
  3. Cache design, critical path simulations and design custom blocks to meet stringent Power/Performance/Area constraints.
  4. Memory path-finding activities and power, performance and area (PPA) optimization.
  5. Methodology definition tasks as well as executing project schedules

Skills

Required

  • CMOS circuit design
  • digital logic optimizations
  • circuit trade-offs for power, performance, and area
  • Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits and design methodologies

Nice to have

  • low-power implementation techniques
  • memory design
  • circuit and layout trade-offs for optimized design
  • EBB design tools, flows and methodologies
  • signal integrity analysis
  • analytical and problem-solving skills
  • prioritize tasks
  • work in dynamic environments