Lead Cpu Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Arizona, Phoenix, United States

Lead CPU Design Engineer at Intel, responsible for designing and developing logic architecture for CPUs, including RTL coding, simulation, optimization, and collaboration on architecture and microarchitecture features. Supports SoC customers for high-quality integration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop the logic design and register transfer level (RTL) coding for CPU features.
  2. Perform simulation and implement strategies to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals, ensuring design integrity.
  3. Collaborate on defining architecture and microarchitecture features of the CPU being designed.
  4. Optimize and debug logic designs using advanced tools and methods.
  5. Review and contribute to verification plans to ensure correctness of CPU design features.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 6+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, 4+ years with a Master's degree, or 2+ years with a PhD in CPU logic design, RTL coding, or microarchitecture development
  • Logic design and RTL coding techniques
  • Power and performance analysis and optimization
  • Microarchitecture fundamentals
  • Low-power design methodologies
  • Debugging and resolving RTL implementation issues

Nice to have

  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams
  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality designs under tight deadlines and dynamic project environments
  • Enthusiasm for innovation and staying ahead of industry trends in CPU design
  • Strong knowledge of CPU architecture (concepts such as caching, pipelining, paging, virtual memory, memory tagging and management)
  • Micro-architecture and RTL environment
  • Demonstrated expertise in understanding the design of complex Intel Architecture CPU
  • Developing and debugging of functional tests in Assembly language in pre-silicon simulation environment

What the JD emphasized

  • CPU logic design
  • RTL coding
  • microarchitecture development