CPU Architect

Job Description

Do Something Wonderful!

Intel put the Silicon in Silicon Valley. No one else is this obsessed with engineering a brighter future. Every day, we create world changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on earth. So, if you have a big idea, let's do something wonderful together. Join us, because at Intel, we are building a better tomorrow.

Who We Are

The P-core architecture team is defining the architecture (new instructions and other SW visible features), and the micro-architecture (internal structure), of the P-core. Our job is to understand new use-cases and define new instructions to address them. Analyse the performance bottlenecks of the current P-core generation, tune and improve the P-core micro-architecture for best performance, power, and area.

Who You Are

As a CPU Architect, your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develops and drives end-to-end CPU architecture specifications for highly optimized, modular, and scalable CPU based on hardware features, requirements, and interoperability of hardware and software throughout the product life cycle.

• Understands the CPU requirements and defines targets (performance, power, frequency, and area) and content (features) that meet the requirements.

• Evaluates feasibility tradeoffs, explores, and defines new approaches and novel architectures for CPU.

• Invents, conceptualizes, and specifies architectural and microarchitecture features to deliver optimized CPU requirements for multiple segments from high performance computing to extreme low power products.

• Develops, defines, and documents new instructions to support new use cases and to improve existing use cases and support the new instruction set architecture (ISA).

• Models CPU performance and power, analyzes the bottlenecks of current CPUs on workloads that reflect CPU future usage.

• Develops tests, test plans, and testing infrastructure for new architectures/features for CPU, performs functional modeling simulations, and conducts analysis of test results using advanced statistics and data predictions for benchmarking performance and determining areas for improvement.

• Provides experimental/proof of concept changes for proposing design alternatives meeting performance, power, area, and timing constraints.

• Reviews, challenges, and influences cross functional roadmaps and defines technology targets for future CPUs.

• Collaborates with architects, design, verification, and validation engineers during the execution of the project.

• Delivers definition of new microarchitecture and finds mitigations for issues that arise during feature implementation to improve the overall design of CPU and overcome bottlenecks and constraints.

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum education requirements and minimum required qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Relevant experience can be obtained through schoolwork, classes, project work, internships, and/or military experience. Additional preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications

The candidate must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering or related computing discipline and 6+ years' related experience OR a Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering, or related computing discipline, and 4+ years related experience, OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering, or related computing discipline and 2+ years’ experience in:

• High performance micro-architecture techniques and research

• CPU architecture and micro-architecture simulators, tracing technologies, and performance analysis.

• 1+ years’ experience or coursework with C++

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering, or related discipline.

• 5+ years experience in a CPU feature definition or high-performance CPU design or validation.

• Experience with cycle-accurate CPU performance simulation and analysis

• Experience leading small teams

Inside this Business Group

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.



Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US $162,041.00-$259,425.00
*Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience

Working Model

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.