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CPU Performance Architect

US, Texas, Austin💼 Full-time💰 $141,910–$232,190🗓 2026-03-25 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and develop CPU logic, defining architecture and microarchitecture features to optimize power, performance, and area for Intel's silicon products.

Role type

Senior IC CPU Performance Architect

Builds

High-performance and low-power CPU designs integrated into SoC solutions

Domain

Semiconductor / CPU Architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

CPU architecture and micro-architecture design, performance modeling and bottleneck analysis, C++ programming, hardware/software interoperability evaluation, test plan development, functional modeling simulations

Preferred skills

PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, CPU design or verification internship experience, advanced Object Oriented Programming (C++/STL)

Technologies

CPU simulators, tracing technologies, performance analysis tools

Responsibilities

Develop end-to-end CPU architecture specifications, define performance/power/frequency/area targets, evaluate feasibility trade-offs and propose novel architectures, model CPU performance and analyze bottlenecks, develop tests and testing infrastructure for new features, provide proof-of-concept design alternatives, collaborate with design and verification engineers, deliver new microarchitecture definitions and mitigations for design issues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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