Intel Senior CPU Microcode Design Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

434046645

Microcode Development

• Design and implement microcode for complex instruction sets (x86 or proprietary architectures).
• Analyzing existing developed code, understanding and gathering new requirements, developing new algorithms or changes required, documenting for review and communication, creating and negotiating a development plan, writing the code, and debugging that code for functionality and performance requirements.
• Interacting and communicating with Architecture, Logic design, and Validation teams to achieve their coding goals.
• Supporting this code through tape-in and future steppings, either through patching or code rewrites.
• Being a member of the Microcode team, candidate will also be reviewing others' code and helping to improve group productivity and accuracy.

Architecture & Design

• Defining and developing innovative Architecture and Microarchitecture for Intel's next generation E-core Microprocessor.
• Collaborate with CPU architects to understand instruction set requirements and performance targets.
• Analyze instruction execution flows and optimize microcode for performance, power, and area efficiency.
• Design microcode control structures and sequencing logic.
• Participate in microarchitecture definition and specification reviews.

Verification & Testing

• Develop comprehensive test plans and verification strategies for microcode functionality.
• Create and execute microcode test cases using simulation environments.
• Debug microcode issues using advanced debugging tools and methodologies.
• Collaborate with validation teams to ensure proper microcode coverage in silicon testing.

Optimization & Performance

• Profile and analyze microcode performance using performance monitoring tools.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in instruction execution paths.
• Optimize microcode for specific workloads and benchmark requirements.
• Implement power management features within microcode constraints.

Qualifications:

You must possess the below minimum education requirements and minimum required qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Relevant experience can be obtained through schoolwork, classes, project work, and internships experience. Additional preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying topcandidates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or in a STEM related field of study.
• 5+ years of experience in CPU microcode development or processor design.
• 2+ years' experience with firmware development in C or C++.
• 1+ years' experience or education in Computer Architecture and/or Micro Architecture techniques.
• 1+ years' experience with logic design using Verilog and debug using industry standard tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Post Graduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or in a STEM related field of study.
• Experience simulator development using C++.
• Experience in logic design using Verilog and debug using industry standard tools.
• Experience with CPUarchitecture/assembly(i.e. Intel x86, AMD, ARM Cortex, etc.).

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