IBM IBM SENIOR LOGIC DESIGN ENGINEER – Cache 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

656316301

• Lead the Architecture, Design and development of processor L2 and LLC (Last Level Cache) for high-performance IBM Systems.
• Design and architect L2 cache and LLC as driven by capacity, latency, bandwidth, and RAS requirements.
• Develop the features, present the proposed architecture in the High level design discussions
• Develop micro-architecture, Design RTL, Collaborate with Verification, DFT, Physical design, FW, SW teams to develop the feature
• Signoff the Pre-silicon Design that meets all the functional, area and timing goals
• Participate in silicon bring-up and validation of the hardware
• Lead a team of engineers, guide and mentor team members, represent as Logic Design Lead in global forums.
• Estimate the overall effort to develop the feature.
• Estimate silicon area and wire usage for the feature.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8 to 15 years of relevant experience
• At least 1 generation of processor L2 cache or LLC design delivery leadership.
• Expertise in cache coherence protocols for symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), covering both chip SMP and multi-socket SMP.
• Experience with NuCA / NuMA (Non-uniform Cache / Memory architecture) architectures and implementations.
• Working knowledge of memory consistency, store ordering, weakly and strongly ordered memory.
• Experience in logical and physical design of caches including directories (tags, set associative memories), data SRAM, design for low latency, multiple parallel finite state machine design, deadlock-free designs.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise