Senior CPU Design Performance Engineer

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THE ROLE:

This Senior Design Engineer in the Core Performance Modeling team in Santa Clara, California will contribute using their experience with CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis. Over the medium and longer-term they will have opportunities to expand their technical contributions more deeply into CPU microarchitecture performance simulator development, workload and performance analysis, and model correlation. If this sounds like a good match for you, come join our team!

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate for the Cores team will be able to demonstrate success in a comparable technical role on a product team innovating and redefining high-performance computing. He or she will be comfortable working in a cross-team environment and show creativity and self-motivation in their academic and post-academic career.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with a small, dedicated team of hardware and software engineers to optimize the performance of CPU microarchitecture
• Expand your experience with cycle-accurate core microarchitecture performance simulator development, workload and trace analysis, microarchitecture development, RTL vs performance model correlation, and so forth

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• C++ programming and scripting language capabilities
• Computer architecture background through coursework and/or work experience
• Cycle-accurate microarchitecture performance simulator development
• Pre-silicon performance analysis
• Computing software, including operating systems, compilers, and applications.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and perseverance with published papers or filed patents that contribute to the industry

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering preferred.

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA; Boxborough, MA is also an option

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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