CPU Micro-architect / RTL Designer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Performance exploration: explore high-performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
• ▹Microarchitecture development and specification, from early high-level architectural exploration through to a detailed specification.
• ▹RTL ownership: development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals.
• ▹Support the design verification team in executing the functional verification strategy.
• ▹Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
• ▹Support design delivery, working with a multi-functional engineering team on the physical design aspects of timing, area, reliability, and testability.

Nice to have

• ▹Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture, with expertise in one or more of: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating-point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, and cache and memory subsystems.
• ▹Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL, with experience using simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• ▹Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications.
• ▹Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques.
• ▹Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in CPU microarchitecture.
• ▹Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

What we offer

• ▹Annual base pay range of $148,300–$250,700.
• ▹Annual discretionary bonus program.
• ▹Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
• ▹Competitive benefits package.

About the company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a company of inventors that pioneered 5G, building CPUs for high-performance, low-power devices.