Senior CPU Performance Modeling Engineer

Huawei; Hartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovative Environment

Global Collaboration

Professional Growth

Impactful Work

Job summary

Huawei's UK Research Center is seeking a Performance Modeling Engineer to lead modeling efforts for next-generation CPU designs. You will design, implement, and refine models that predict microarchitectural behavior, while maintaining toolchains for cycle-accurate and statistical simulations.

You will collaborate with architects, software engineers, and a global community of experts to evaluate design choices, run power and performance analyses, and visualize bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with coursework in Computer Architecture.
• Hands-on performance modeling and CPU microarchitecture analysis experience.
• Familiarity with cycle-accurate, cycle-approximate or functional simulators and CPU pipelines.
• Strong C/C++ software development and Python scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and refine performance models predicting CPU microarchitecture behavior.
• Maintain in-house toolchains for cycle-accurate, trace-driven, or statistical simulations.
• Evaluate hardware design choices and quantify trade-offs using data-driven insights.
• Collaborate with architects, software engineers, and international performance modeling experts to improve modeling strategies.

Skills

Performance modeling

CPU architecture

C/C++

Python

Team collaboration

Arm architectures

RTL/SystemC

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE

Tools

SystemC

RTL simulators

Cycle-accurate/simulator tech

Job description

Huawei's UK Research Center is seeking a Performance Modeling Engineer to lead modeling efforts for next-generation CPU designs. You will design, implement, and refine models that predict microarchitectural behavior, while maintaining toolchains for cycle-accurate and statistical simulations.

You will collaborate with architects, software engineers, and a global community of experts to evaluate design choices, run power and performance analyses, and visualize bottlenecks.