CPU RTL Design Engineer

Company: European Tech Recruit
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Location: Fen Ditton
Job Description:

European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semicon company, based in Cambridge, who are looking for a talented CPU RTL Design Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities as CPU RTL Design Engineer

  • Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modelling team.
  • Microarchitecture development / specification from early high‑level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.
  • Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.
  • Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.
  • Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
  • Work with multi‑functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

Requirements

  • Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out‑of‑order execution, integer and floating point execution, 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 along with timing and power implications.
  • Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques.
  • Understanding of high performance techniques and trade‑offs in a CPU microarchitecture.
  • Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

If this role is of any interest please apply directly on LinkedIn or send a copy of your CV to nh@eu-recruit.com.

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Posted: September 22nd, 2026