Senior Cpu Circuit Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Texas, Austin, United States

Senior CPU Circuit Design Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and building custom digital circuits for CPUs, including memory and caches. This involves floorplanning, circuit design, schematic entry, simulation, and verification to optimize for power, performance, area, timing, and yield. The role also includes creating DFT models, developing memory test tools, and optimizing CPU circuits for low power and performance. Requires a Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field with significant experience in CMOS circuit design, VLSI, and memory design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designs, develops, and builds custom digital circuits for a CPU, including memory and caches.
  2. Designs floorplans, performs circuit design, schematic entry, simulation for CPU blocks, and verify functionality to optimize custom circuit for CPU power, performance, area, timing, and yield goals.
  3. Creates block level DFT models, develops memory test tools, and improves and automates flows and methodologies to ensure streamlining of design.
  4. Collaborates cross functionally to report design progress and to collect, track, and resolve any performance and CPU design issues.
  5. Optimizes performance, power, and area, reduces leakage of CPU circuits, and drives characterization of individual memory instances and memory compilers.

Skills

Required

  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering or any STEM related degree with 4+ years of relevant experience -OR- PhD in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering or any STEM related degree with 2+ years of relevant experience
  • Complementary MOS (CMOS) circuits design
  • Digital logic and optimization
  • Circuit design trade-off for power, performance and area
  • Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
  • Low power implementation techniques
  • Memory design experience

What the JD emphasized

  • custom digital circuits
  • CPU design
  • memory and caches
  • circuit design
  • simulation
  • CPU power, performance, area, timing, and yield goals
  • DFT models
  • memory test tools
  • low power implementation techniques
  • memory design