Senior CPU Performance Architect

Intel
Austin, Phoenix, Santa Clara
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 190,610 - 361,480 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Analytical thinking","Communication"]

Lead architecture and microarchitecture efforts for high-performance CPUs at Intel, shaping end-to-end CPU design specifications and performance models for scalable, power-efficient products across enterprise and edge markets. Collaborate across design, verification, and validation to define new microarchitectures, analyze bottlenecks, and ensure RTL-to-silicon alignment while pushing IPC and performance boundaries.

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Senior CPU Performance Architect

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Job Summary

Lead architecture and microarchitecture efforts for high-performance CPUs at Intel, shaping end-to-end CPU design specifications and performance models for scalable, power-efficient products across enterprise and edge markets. Collaborate across design, verification, and validation to define new microarchitectures, analyze bottlenecks, and ensure RTL-to-silicon alignment while pushing IPC and performance boundaries.
Location: Austin, Phoenix, Santa Clara
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develops and drives end-to-end CPU microarchitecture specifications for highly optimized, modular, and scalable CPU based on hardware features, requirements, and interoperability of hardware and software throughout the product life cycle.
  • •Evaluates feasibility tradeoffs, explores, and defines new approaches and novel microarchitectures for CPU.
  • •Models CPU performance and power characteristics and analyzes the bottlenecks of current performance features on workloads that reflect CPU future usage.
  • •Collaborates with architects, design, verification, and validation engineers during the execution of the project.
  • •Delivers definition of new microarchitecture and finds mitigations for issues that arise during feature implementation to improve the overall design of CPU and overcome bottlenecks and constraints.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,610 - 361,480 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Master's Degree with 10+ years of experience or PhD (with dissertation within a general CPU performance domain) with 6+ years of experience in a high performance, high frequency ARM or x86 CPU performance team
  • •8+ years of continuous work within cycle accurate C/C++ CPU performance simulators
Experience:10+ yearsHigh performance computingCPU performanceARMX86
Education:Master's
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationAnalytical thinkingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++CSTLAssemblyRTLCycle-accurate simulators

Company Brief

Intel
Designs and manufactures semiconductor chips, processors, and related hardware for PCs, data centers, networking, and embedded applications, while providing software and services to accelerate computing across industries globally.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1968
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