Silicon Design Engineer

Overview

In this role you contribute to high-performance CPU microarchitecture development within the Core Performance Architecture Modelling team. You’ll analyze workloads and performance data, support RTL-to-model correlation, and evaluate microarchitectural features to quantify impact. You work alongside performance, architecture, RTL design, and software teams to advance future processors. This is a hands-on opportunity to deepen CPU architecture expertise in a multidisciplinary, collaborative environment with real impact on product performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine cycle-accurate CPU microarchitecture performance models
• Analyze workloads and performance data to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities
• Support RTL-to-performance-model correlation and compare models with hardware
• Evaluate microarchitecture features and their impact on CPU performance
• Collaborate with performance, architecture, RTL design, and software teams on feature development
• Develop tools, scripts, and methodologies to improve performance analysis and modelling
• Build expertise across CPU pipelines, prediction structures, memory systems, and other core microarchitecture components

Key requirements

• Strong programming skills in C++
• Experience with Python or scripting languages is beneficial
• Good understanding of computer architecture and CPU microarchitecture fundamentals
• Academic, research, internship, or industry experience in processor architecture, performance modelling, simulation, or hardware design
• Familiarity with performance analysis, benchmarking, or cycle-accurate simulation is advantageous
• Understanding of computing software stacks (OS, compilers, applications)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Clear communication and teamwork in engineering context
• Evidence of curiosity and initiative through projects or publications is beneficial
• Strong electronics or digital hardware background (RTL or hardware design principles) is a plus

• collaborative mindset
• strong communication
• analytical thinking
• C++
• Python
• computer architecture

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