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Core Performance Architect

Santa Clara, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $178,848–$178,848🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Research and develop next-generation high-performance processors and micro-architectures to meet aggressive performance targets.

Role type

Senior IC computer architecture engineer (high-performance CPU)

Builds

High-performance out-of-order CPU designs and RTL implementations

Domain

Semiconductor / Computer Architecture / High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

High-performance processor development, RTL implementation flows, FPGA flows and debug, micro-architecture analysis, workload characterization, performance simulation and projection

Preferred skills

Security vulnerability awareness, knowledge of industry micro-architectures

Technologies

RTL, FPGA, Integrated Logic Analyzer

Responsibilities

Research and model architecture/micro-architecture ideas, design and carry out experiments to develop features, implement performance targets in RTL, analyze performance bottlenecks in micro-architecture and software stack, identify HW/SW performance bottlenecks via workload characterization, apply workload reduction techniques for efficient simulation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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