CPU Micro-Architect / RTL Engineer
NUVACORE
CPU Micro-Architect / RTL Engineer
NUVACORE
Designs high-performance, general-purpose CPU cores
Salary Range: 140000 to 300000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)
As a CPU Micro-Architect/RTL Engineer, you will participate in the following:
Micro-architecture development and specification - starting from a performance driven design strategy, you will work with our performance modeling team and study early micro-architectures and converge on a design captured in a detailed specification. Critical understanding of the various pipelines and intra-unit communication will be necessary to build a clean yet performant design.
RTL design - develop and refine RTL which targets the power, performance, area and timing goals. A solid understanding of the modern Verilog standards is a plus, enabling you to write RTL which is flexible and robust, configurable, and scalable.
Verification - assist the verification team in all forms of CPU verification used, such as testbench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for formal verification
Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance architecture and verification team to verify that the RTL meets targeted performance.
Physical design - work with the PD engineering team to implement and verify the physical design meets the goals. Be able to iterate and refine the RTL design. Incorporate improvements for timing, power, area, DFT, and reliability.
BS or MS with 15+ (leads) and 7+ (ICs) years experience in high-performance, low-power CPU design
Experience with coding in Verilog, debugging, simulation, ideally with experience driving modern AI Tools to assist in RTL coding
Solid understanding of logic and physical design and the impacts on timing, power, and area
Experience with RISC-V or ARM64 or x86 ISA and their impacts on CPU micro-architectural choices
Expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch, branch prediction; instruction decoding, scheduling and register renaming; out-of-order execution; integer and floating point execution; load/store execution; prefetching; cache and memory subsystems; translation and memory management; memory coherence and ordering; power and thermal management; and clocking / reset design
Strong background in low power microarchitecture and high-performance design techniques, with a proven track record of execution on multiple CPU programs and products
Experience in C, C++, and other languages such as Perl or Python
Nuvacore designs high-performance, general-purpose CPU cores built from the ground up to meet AI-focused workloads in data centers and advanced systems. It offers cores as either IP for chip developers or finished chips, optimized for speed and area efficiency to handle continuous, long-running tasks. The team combines veterans from Nuvia, Apple, and Arm, focusing on agentic computing rather than specialized accelerators to differentiate from competitors. The goal is to deliver scalable, reliable CPUs that provide high throughput for large-scale AI workloads and continuous computing tasks.
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