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# Staff RTL/Digital Design Engineer - (CPU Team) - Visas Transfers Supported

- **Company:** European Tech Recruit
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Microprocessors, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Scripting, Physical Design
- **Published:** July 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2871823911-2

## About the Role

* Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems
 * Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
 * Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
 * Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
 * Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
 * Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

## Description

Working on CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices, as a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

What will you be doing?

 * Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modelling team.
 * Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.
 * RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.
 * Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.
 * Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
 * Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.


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