About MIPS @ GlobalFoundries:
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With the addition of the MIPS team, GF now offer a rich portfolio of RISC-V CPUs, especially AI-enabled processors for the Physical AI world.
Summary of Role:
We are seeking an experienced CPU IP Design Engineer. Responsible for Defining, leading and owning RTL development of our latest AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the design including Functional Features, Performance, Power, and Area.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Drive the micro-architecture and design of critical blocks of the CPU core
- Design of RISC-V Vector CPU core and its custom extensions
- Design of AI-enabled Matrix engine to augment the Vector CPU
- Explore high-performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team
- Perform Microarchitecture development and specification- from early high-level architectural exploration, through microarchitectural research and arrive at detailed specifications
- Configure Design Features Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
- Perform Functional verification support and assist in the design verification strategy
- Assist with the verification of RTL design performance goals
- Partner with a multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power
Other Responsibilities:
Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
Required Qualifications:
- Hands-on working knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU core
- Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction techniques
- Instruction scheduling, register renaming, Reorder Buffer (ROB)
- Out-of-order execution
- Integer and Floating-point execution
- Load/Store execution
- Instruction and Data Prefetch
- Vector data path
- Cache and memory subsystems
- Knowledge of Cache coherency and memory consistency
- Knowledge of System Verilog, Verilog and/or VHDL
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
- Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
- Master’s with 4-7 years of experience, PhD 2-5 years of work experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with designing RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU
- Experience with Hardware multi-threading, virtualization, and SIMD designs
- Experience with vector and matrix-enabled CPUs, preferably RISC-V processors.
- Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
- Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques
- Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python
- Understanding of CPU integration at SoC level
- Understanding of Safety and Security microarchitecture
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Skills Required
- Master’s degree with 4–7 years of experience, or PhD with 2–5 years of work experience
- Hands-on knowledge of in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU pipeline stages
- Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture
- Expertise in one or more CPU areas including instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, reorder buffers, out-of-order execution, integer and floating-point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, vector datapaths, or cache and memory subsystems
- Knowledge of cache coherency and memory consistency
- Knowledge of SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
- Knowledge of logic design principles and timing and power implications
- Experience designing RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPUs
- Experience with hardware multithreading, virtualization, and SIMD designs
- Experience with vector- and matrix-enabled CPUs, preferably RISC-V processors
- Understanding of high-performance CPU microarchitecture techniques and trade-offs
- Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques
- Experience using Perl or Python
- Understanding of CPU integration at the SoC level
- Understanding of safety and security microarchitecture
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