Nuvacore
CPU Micro-Architect / RTL (Lead & IC Engineers)
Austin, TX
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About the role
- As a CPU Micro-Architect/RTL Engineer, you will participate in the following:
- Verification - assist the verification team in all forms of CPU verification used, such as testbench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for formal verification
- Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance architecture and verification team to verify that the RTL meets targeted performance.
Responsibilities
- Critical understanding of the various pipelines and intra-unit communication will be necessary to build a clean yet performant design.
- RTL design - develop and refine RTL which targets the power, performance, area and timing goals.
- Physical design - work with the PD engineering team to implement and verify the physical design meets the goals.
- Be able to iterate and refine the RTL design.
- BS or MS with 15+ (leads) and 7+ (ICs) years experience in high-performance, low-power CPU design
- Solid understanding of logic and physical design and the impacts on timing, power, and area
- Strong background in low power microarchitecture and high-performance design techniques, with a proven track record of execution on multiple CPU programs and products
Requirements
- Experience with RISC-V or ARM64 or x86 ISA and their impacts on CPU micro-architectural choices
Nice to have
- Experience with coding in Verilog, debugging, simulation, ideally with experience driving modern AI Tools to assist in RTL coding
Compensation
- $140k-$300k
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