Senior Principal CPU Architect: Next-Gen Microarchitecture

European Tech Recruit; Cambridge; Vor Ort; GBP 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

European Tech Recruit in Cambridge, UK, is seeking a principal-level architect to define next-generation processor concepts years ahead of production, on-site in Cambridge.

You will own architectural pathfinding, design advanced execution pipelines, memory hierarchies, and collaborate across toolchains to drive hardware-software co-design.

The role emphasizes cycle-accurate simulation, PPA trade-offs, and influencing ISA capabilities for high-performance workloads.

Qualifikationen

• Extensive background in high-performance CPU microarchitecture and memory hierarchy design.
• Masters or PhD in Computer Engineering, CS, or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience building cycle-accurate simulators using C/C++/Python.

Aufgaben

• Lead architectural pathfinding and formulate long-range microarchitectural roadmaps for high-performance CPU cores.
• Architect advanced microarchitecture concepts covering fetch/decode units, out-of-order execution, speculative execution, register renaming, and multi-level cache coherency.
• Define and evaluate new ISA capabilities, including specialized vector/matrix extensions, exception models, and confidential compute features.
• Profile emerging workloads (LLMs, Generative AI, graph processing) and convert software bottlenecks into microarchitectural requirements.
• Drive hardware-software co-design efforts alongside compiler, kernel, and system software engineering teams.
• Guide the construction and maintenance of cycle-accurate CPU simulation models using C++ and Python.
• Perform rigorous performance, power, and area (PPA) trade-off analysis using simulation traces and workload profiling tools.

Kenntnisse

High-performance CPU microarchitecture

Execution pipelines

Cache/memory hierarchy design

Ausbildung

Master’s or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Perf

VTune

SimPoints

Jobbeschreibung

European Tech Recruit in Cambridge, UK, is seeking a principal-level architect to define next-generation processor concepts years ahead of production, on-site in Cambridge.

You will own architectural pathfinding, design advanced execution pipelines, memory hierarchies, and collaborate across toolchains to drive hardware-software co-design.

The role emphasizes cycle-accurate simulation, PPA trade-offs, and influencing ISA capabilities for high-performance workloads.