CPU RTL Design Engineer (Senior/Staff) - Cambridge, UK
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In short
Qualcomm is hiring a Senior/Staff CPU RTL Design Engineer in Cambridge, UK to develop high-performance, low-power CPUs. Responsibilities include microarchitecture development, RTL ownership, and functional/performance verification support, working closely with chip architects and multi-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
- Develop microarchitecture and specification from early exploration to detailed specification.
- Own, assess, and refine RTL design for power, performance, area, and timing goals.
- Support the design verification team in executing the functional verification strategy.
- Assist in verifying that the RTL design meets performance goals.
- Work with multi-functional engineering teams to implement and validate physical design aspects like timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including expertise in areas like instruction fetch/decode, branch prediction, scheduling, out-of-order execution, execution units, load/store execution, prefetching, cache, and memory subsystems.
- Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL.
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
- Knowledge of logic design principles, timing, and power implications.
- Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques.
- Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in CPU microarchitecture.
- Experience using scripting languages such as Perl or Python.
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
Benefits
- Salary, stock and performance related bonus
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Employee stock purchase scheme
- Matching pension scheme
- Education Assistance
- Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
- Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
- Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
- Bicycle purchase scheme
- Employee run clubs (running, football, chess, badminton + many more)
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Company
Qualcomm
Job Posted
3 weeks ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Qualification
Bachelor, Master, Doctoral
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