$190,610 – $361,480
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What this role is
Intel seeks a CPU Performance Architect to develop microarchitecture specifications for next-generation processors, optimizing for performance and power efficiency across diverse computing segments. This role suits someone with deep expertise in CPU design who can innovate across instruction fetch, execution, memory systems, or related microarchitectural domains.
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What they ask for
Required
- Master's degree with 10+ years CPU performance experience, or PhD with 6+ years in high-performance ARM or x86 CPU teams
- 8+ years working with cycle-accurate C++ CPU performance simulators
- Expertise in at least one CPU domain: branch prediction, fetch/decode, rename/allocation, reservation stations, execution, memory subsystem, or prefetchers
- Experience debugging microarchitecture and simulation issues
- Strong background in microarchitecture, RTL, and logic development
Nice to have
- Background in CPU microarchitecture and cycle-accurate performance simulator modeling
- Experience in microarchitecture exploration and identifying IPC-improving features
- End-to-end CPU performance work from pathfinding through post-silicon validation
- Familiarity with performance scenarios, KPIs, and workload analysis
- Advanced C++ and scripting skills
- Ability to write assembly and craft microarchitectural tests
- Ability to read and debug RTL performance issues