Senior/Staff Design Engineer

We are seeking recent-graduates who are eager to become a world-class CPU IP Design Engineer. Responsible for developing 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.

Do you have experience in Simulation tools?, Do you have a Master's degree?, Knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU core Knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including 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 Bachelor's with 3-7 or Master's with 2-5 years of experience, 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 Knowledge of Cache coherency and memory consistency Understanding of CPU integration at SoC level Understanding of Safety and Security microarchitecture

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., An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations. GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory.