Senior CPU Silicon Analysis Engineer

Intel•Hillsboro, OR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Intel's architecture team as a Senior CPU Silicon Analysis Engineer. In this role, you will be central to in-depth studies of CPU designs, providing critical data-driven guidance for future CPU roadmap decisions. You will own silicon bring-up, maintenance, and a wide range of measurements to characterize processor behavior across power, performance, and physical operating conditions. Your findings will directly influence architectural decisions at the highest levels of Intel's CPU development organization.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline with 8+ years of relevant industry experience, OR a Master's Degree in a related discipline with 6+ years of relevant industry experience
Hands-on experience with silicon lab environments, including platform bring-up, debug, and instrumentation
Experience collecting and analyzing silicon power and performance metrics such as IPC, Frequency, Cdyn, leakage, and microarchitectural telemetries
Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar) for test automation and data analysis
Strong analytical skills and ability to draw actionable conclusions from complex, multi-dimensional silicon data sets

Nice To Haves

Experience characterizing CPU silicon across a range of designs and operating conditions
Familiarity with EMON/PMU-based performance profiling and OS-level performance tooling
Understanding of CPU microarchitecture sufficient to interpret performance counter data and correlate measurements to architectural behavior
Exposure to backend design concepts such as voltage-frequency corner selection, leakage-frequency tradeoffs, and process library characteristics
Experience with RTL simulation or pre-silicon performance modeling and correlation workflows
Background in silicon-based benchmarking and performance characterization of processor designs

Responsibilities

Own and operate lab infrastructure for systematic silicon characterization, including bring-up, maintenance, and debug of pre-production and production platforms
Plan and execute measurements across a broad range of metrics including performance, IPC, power, dynamic capacitance, leakage, voltage-frequency curves, and microarchitectural telemetry
Design and execute structured measurement campaigns to characterize silicon behavior under a variety of operating conditions, workloads, and thermal/power envelopes
Analyze and interpret silicon data to identify power/performance gaps, anomalies, and opportunities relative to architectural expectations and roadmap targets
Collaborate with architecture, benchmarking, backend design, and simulation teams to correlate lab results with pre-silicon models and design data, and to drive root cause analysis of discrepancies
Develop tooling, scripts, and automation to streamline data collection, processing, and reporting pipelines
Communicate findings clearly through technical reports and presentations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders