Job Details

CPU Debug and Power Management Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: May 15, 2025

Role Number: 200605133

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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.

Description

As a CPU Debug and Power Management Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or contribute to the following:

• RTL ownership of CPU debug, trace, power management, clock management, and timer logic - development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals
• Micro-architecture development and specification - Work with a cross-functional team of silicon and software experts to explore and define architectural features, develop micro-architectural details, and arrive at a detailed specification
• Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for functional verification
• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance
• Design delivery - Aid in debug of issues at SoC level related to CPU power management, clock control, and debug features. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience with Verilog or VHDL

• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools

• Experience with logic design with timing and power implications

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of microprocessor architecture

• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: multiple clock/power domains and power management strategies, hardware debug and trace capabilities, DFT strategies, interrupt controllers, memory subsystem queuing, scheduling - starvation and deadlock avoidance, fabric communication protocols and interconnects

• SRAM design basics

• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques

• Understanding of high-performance design techniques and trade-offs

• Experience in C or C++ programming

• Experience using an interpretive language such as Python or Perl

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