Senior Out-of-Order CPU Architect

Intel Corporation • Austin, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Role and Impact As a CPU Architect, you will be at the forefront of Intel's innovation, shaping the future of CPU designs for high-performance computing and low-power products. This role is integral to Intel's mission to deliver cutting-edge solutions that power the world's technology, from advanced data centers to everyday consumer devices. You will play a pivotal role in driving end-to-end CPU architecture specifications, ensuring optimal performance, power efficiency, scalability, and interoperability across hardware and software. Through creative problem-solving and collaboration, you will influence cross-functional roadmaps, define technology targets, and deliver revolutionary CPU architectures that meet diverse market requirements.

Requirements

• 15+ consecutive years of experience within high performance/high frequency ARM or x86 CPU organizations working in either the design or architectural domain. Ideally both.
• 10+ years of experience working within the out-of-order sections of the CPU pipeline. This includes the areas of wide instruction rename and allocation, uop/instruction schedulers, and execution units.
• 5+ years writing RTL and owning it through timing and power convergence across multiple generations of a CPU line.
• 2+ years of experience building deep, high frequency advanced integer and/or floating-point/vector schedulers.

Nice To Haves

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills demonstrated through leadership roles or team management.
• Effective collaboration skills to work across teams and influence cross-functional roadmaps.
• Passion for driving innovation and contributing to Intel's mission of delivering world-class technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive end-to-end CPU architecture specifications based on hardware features, requirements, and lifecycle needs.
• Define CPU targets for performance, power, frequency, area, and feature content to align with market requirements.
• Explore new approaches and devise novel architectures that deliver optimized CPUs for multiple segments, from high-performance computing to extreme low-power applications.
• Invent, conceptualize, and specify architectural and microarchitecture features that address future CPU usage and segment needs.
• Define and document new instructions to support innovative use cases and improve existing ones, enhancing the instruction set architecture (ISA).
• Develop and execute test plans and infrastructure for new architectures/features, simulate functional models, and analyze test results using advanced statistical techniques.
• Propose experimental changes and design alternatives to meet constraints for performance, power, area, and timing.
• Capable of, but not often required to in your role, of directly implementing your microarchitectural specifications in system verilog. If designers require aid in converging timing and/or power constraints, you are expected to be able to do the work yourself and solve the issues quickly.
• Review and influence cross-functional roadmaps and collaborate with architects, design, verification, and validation engineers during project execution.
• Drive definition of new microarchitectures and identify mitigations for issues during feature implementation to improve CPU designs.
• Expertise in CPU architecture fundamentals, microarchitecture design, low-power design, RTL development, and System Verilog.
• Proven ability to debug microarchitecture and simulation issues and solve complex design problems.

Benefits

• We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees