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Sr. Engineer, CPU RTL Design

Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and implementing RTL for high-performance RISC-V CPU blocks, focusing on microarchitecture definition and optimization.

Role type

Senior IC CPU RTL Design Engineer

Builds

High-performance RISC-V CPU cores

Domain

Semiconductor / CPU Design / RISC-V

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

CPU microarchitecture expertise, RTL coding (Verilog/VHDL), simulation and synthesis tools, debugging across design hierarchies, performance-driven trade-off analysis

Preferred skills

Experience with Rename, Scheduler, ROB, Load Store, Branch Prediction, Cache, or Datapath

Technologies

Verilog, VHDL, industry-standard simulation and synthesis tools

Responsibilities

Own RTL design and microarchitecture development for a portion of a CPU block, collaborate with DV, PD, and performance engineers to meet functional, timing, and power goals, optimize power, performance, and area through RTL experiments, partner with validation and test teams for robust execution, enhance RTL design environment and tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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