Staff Engineer AI/ML

MIPS Holding Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries in Santa Clara, CA seeks an experienced CPU IP Design Engineer to define and own RTL development of an AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core. You will drive micro-architecture, vector and matrix processing components, and coordinate across design, verification, and modeling teams.

This senior role requires SystemVerilog expertise and strong RTL skills. Expect to collaborate on performance, power, and timing targets while shaping the CPU core from architectural exploration to detailed

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 10+ years of experience, or PhD with 5+ years.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance processor or GPU microarchitecture.
• Expertise in RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU designs.
• Strong knowledge of vector and matrix processing and datapath design.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog/Verilog and hardware verification.

Responsibilities

• Lead RTL development for AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core.
• Drive micro-architecture and design of critical blocks.
• Collaborate with modeling, verification, and physical design teams.
• Validate timing, power, and area goals for RTL designs.
• Support verification strategies and performance goals.

Skills

High performance processor design

Vector processor design

RISC-V/ARM/MIPS CPU experience

SystemVerilog/Verilog

RTL/microarchitecture expertise

Verification & debugging

Floating-point/integer datapath

SoC timing/power/area

Scripting (Python/Perl)

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Verilog/SystemVerilog simulators

Waveform debugging tools

Python/Perl scripting

Job description

About MIPS @ GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. 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 high performance processor, vector processor or GPUs
• Working knowledge of datapath design including vector and matrix processing in floating points and integer points datatypes.
• 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 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 10+ years of experience, PhD 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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Expected Salary Range $143,000.00 - $275,000.00

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