Senior CPU Performance Architect

Google • Mountain View, CA

274d • $156,000 - $229,000

About The Position

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration. As a Senior CPU Performance Architect, you will be the key contributor to improve processor instruction set architecture, to develop innovative microarchitecture features, and to deliver Google's advanced SoC products. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with talents in Google's Android applications and Google's world-renowned AI teams to plan and conduct application and benchmark performance analysis and to project their performance at various design phases. Leveraging your CPU-specific knowledge and leadership, you will be guiding junior CPU architects and working with exceptional engineers in Power, Thermal, Security, and Physical Design teams to determine the CPU subsystem configuration and features. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with microprocessor architecture, microarchitecture, performance, and design.
• Experience with performance modeling, analysis, correlation, and workload characterization.
• Experience with CPU architecture (e.g., CPU block).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on Computer Architecture, or a related field.
• Experience leading CPU/Machine Learning microarchitecture exploration, performance model development, performance analysis, performance correlation, and workload characterization.
• Knowledge of processor instruction set architecture (e.g., ARM, RISC-V, x86).
• Knowledge of system software components, such as Linux, drivers, and runtime.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evaluate ARM's architecture features from both architecture and performance angles.
• Develop a performance model for performance analysis and microarchitecture study.
• Define and write CPU subsystem architecture specifications.
• Lead collaboration with RTL, Design Verification, and Physical Design teams to develop a high performance and efficient CPU implementation.
• Drive performance correlation between the performance model and RTL implementation, including micro-benchmark development and pre-silicon and post-silicon performance bug triage.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree