CPU Physical Design Engineer

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
•   1+ year of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).

•    1+ year of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.

•    1+ year of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.

•    1+ year of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Applies knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to assist in the development and verification of high performance and low power CPU designs.

•    Identifies and solves routine problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.

•    Collaborates with team members to assist in the defining of requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.

•    Assists in the evaluation of the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.

•    Writes technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for CPU designs.

Level of Responsibility:

•    Works under supervision.
•    Decision-making affects direct area of work and/or work group.
•    Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information.

•    Tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

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