About the Role
As a Server CPU SoC Architect, you will define, model, and drive the development of innovative CPU architectures to meet performance, power, frequency, and area targets for a wide spectrum of applications. You will evaluate feasibility tradeoffs, define novel architectural approaches, and develop optimized solutions to address future workload demands, directly shaping Intel's cutting-edge CPU designs.
Responsibilities
- Define and document end-to-end architecture specifications, ensuring modularity, scalability, and compatibility with hardware and software requirements.
- Explore and develop new architectural approaches, novel features, and inventive solutions to meet performance, power, and area optimization targets.
- Conduct detailed feasibility studies and tradeoff analyses to define CPU requirements and content, including new instructions to support emerging use cases.
- Model CPU performance and power, analyze bottlenecks, and propose architectural improvements based on future workload predictions.
- Develop test plans, testing infrastructure, and simulations for new features, using advanced statistical methods to analyze results and benchmark CPU performance.
- Collaborate across architecture, design, verification, and validation teams to ensure seamless execution of CPU projects and deliver optimized solutions.
- Influence cross-functional roadmaps and define technology targets that align with Intel's future CPU strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 4+ years of hands-on experience in CPU architecture, or Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience, or PhD with 1+ years of relevant experience.
- 4+ years' experience in architecture definition, modeling, and / or CPU architecture fundamentals.
- 4+ years' experience in SoC architecture and development methodologies.
- 8+ years of experience with advanced CPU technology.
- Strong understanding/experience working on Fabric/Interconnect, PCIe/CXL, Coherency protocols, Core/ISA or accelerators.
- Knowledge of performance and power modeling, bottleneck analysis, and optimization for CPU workloads.
- Experience with instruction set architecture (ISA) development and implementation.
- Familiarity with industry trends and the ability to align technical vision with market demands to maintain leadership in CPU performance, power optimization, and scalability.
Skills
- CPU architecture
- SoC architecture
- Architecture definition
- Modeling
- Performance modeling
- Power modeling
- Bottleneck analysis
- Optimization
- Instruction set architecture (ISA) development
- Fabric/Interconnect
- PCIe/CXL
- Coherency protocols
- Core/ISA
- Accelerators
Location
- US, Oregon, Hillsboro
- US, Arizona, Phoenix
- US, California, Santa Clara
- US, Massachusetts, Beaver Brook
- US, Texas, Austin
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced Hire
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $141,910.00-269,100.00 USD
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Stock bonuses
- Health benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Vacation benefits
About the Company
- Intel is shaping the future of technology to help create a better future for the entire world.
- Our work in pushing forward fields like AI, analytics, and cloud-to-edge technology is at the heart of countless innovations.
- Intel's Architecture team is dedicated to designing and delivering world-class leadership hardware solutions that power the next generation of computing.
- This group plays a critical role in advancing Intel's capabilities and pushing the boundaries of performance, scalability, and efficiency across diverse product segments.
- By joining this team, you'll be part of an organization that drives technology leadership and supports Intel's broader mission to create world-changing innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
