Senior CPU Hardware Performance Architect

Overview

A prominent global technology company with a significant research and development hub in Cambridge is expanding their CPU Performance team. They seek a Senior CPU Hardware Performance Architect to advance the design and development of cutting-edge high-performance CPU cores.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and specify the microarchitecture for future CPU generations.
• Work closely with hardware and software teams to interpret system-level requirements into CPU architectural capabilities.
• Create, update, and enhance cycle-accurate CPU simulators and functional models.
• Develop performance assessment models to analyze new microarchitectural proposals and design choices.
• Innovate with new CPU microarchitecture features and evaluate their impact on performance.
• Conduct comprehensive evaluations of architectural concepts considering performance, power consumption, and chip area (PPA).
• Analyze real-world workloads to pinpoint CPU and system bottlenecks.
• Perform sensitivity analyses to assess how workloads respond to changing architectural parameters.
• Use performance modeling and workload profiling data to steer CPU optimization strategies.
• Investigate performance constraints and provide data-driven architectural improvement recommendations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related area, supported by extensive industry experience; a PhD is also acceptable.
• Over six years of professional experience in CPU architecture, performance engineering, processor design, or similar technical fields.
• In-depth knowledge of modern CPU microarchitecture concepts.
• Expertise in CPU architecture and microarchitecture design.
• Proven track record developing new microarchitectural concepts from research stages through implementation and silicon production.
• Hands-on experience with cycle-accurate CPU simulator development and utilization.
• Proficient in building and applying functional simulators and performance modeling tools.

Technical Skills Keywords

This role involves working with high-performance CPUs focusing on microarchitecture, cycle-accurate and functional simulation, workload characterization, and performance-power-area trade-offs. Key techniques include branch prediction, out-of-order execution, memory hierarchy design, and pre-silicon performance analysis using C++ and Python.

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