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Senior Principal CPU Architect – CPU Architecture / Microarchitecture / ISA / Performance Analysis / Hardware-Software Co-Design
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Senior Principal CPU Architect – CPU Architecture / Microarchitecture / ISA / Performance Analysis / Hardware-Software Co-Design
We are currently partnered with a global semiconductor and advanced computing technology organisation developing next-generation high-performance processor architectures.
As part of their continued investment in future CPU technologies, they are looking to appoint a highly experienced Senior Principal CPU Architect to help define the next generations of high-performance CPU architecture.
Key responsibilities
- Lead architectural pathfinding for next-generation CPU designs and technologies
- Define and evaluate advanced CPU microarchitectural concepts
- Develop architectural approaches covering fetch, decode, execution pipelines, out-of-order scheduling, and multi-level memory hierarchies
- Evaluate and define new instruction-set capabilities, including vector, matrix, and specialised compute instructions
- Analyse emerging workloads and identify software and application bottlenecks
- Translate workload and software requirements into future microarchitectural capabilities
- Work closely with compiler, operating-system, and application-software teams on hardware/software co-design
- Develop and guide C++- and Python-based cycle-accurate CPU simulation models
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Key requirements
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience in high-performance CPU architecture or closely related processor architecture roles
- Extensive experience with high-performance CPU architecture and microarchitecture
- Deep understanding of out-of-order execution and modern superscalar processor design
- Strong knowledge of branch prediction, register renaming, speculative execution, and execution pipelines
- Strong understanding of cache hierarchies and memory-system architecture
- Deep knowledge of cache coherency and coherency protocols
- Strong understanding of instruction-set architecture and ISA design
- Knowledge of exception models, memory consistency, and virtualisation
- Experience analysing workloads using profiling tools, performance counters, and simulation traces
- Familiarity with performance-analysis environments such as VTune, Perf,
Keywords
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