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# CPU HW Performance Architect

- **Company:** Eu Recruit
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Compilers, Profiling, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), CPU Design, Software Engineering, Information Technology, C++14
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eu-recruit.com/jobs/senior-cpu-hw-performance-architect/#vacancy-apply

## About the Role

* BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, with significant relevant industry experience, or a PhD.
 * Strong understanding of CPU microarchitecture, particularly areas such as fetch/decode, branch prediction, rename/dispatch, out-of-order execution, execution units, load/store, prefetching and memory hierarchy.
 * Good understanding of performance, power and area trade-offs in high-performance CPU design.
 * Strong software engineering and performance profiling skills.
 * Programming experience with modern C++ and Python.
 * Strong analytical and debugging ability.

Desirable

 * Deep expertise in CPU architecture and microarchitecture.
 * Experience taking microarchitectural innovations from concept towards silicon.
 * Hands-on experience with cycle-accurate simulators and performance models.
 * Pre-silicon performance analysis experience.
 * Understanding of operating systems, compilers and application workloads.
 * Patents, publications or other recognised technical contributions.

## Description

Our client is a leading global technology organisation with a major R&D presence in Cambridge. They are looking for a Senior CPU HW Performance Architect to join their CPU Performance team and contribute to the development of next-generation high-performance CPU cores.
You will work across performance modelling, workload analysis and microarchitectural exploration, helping guide critical design decisions across performance, power and area., * Define next-generation CPU microarchitecture and high-level specifications in collaboration with hardware and software teams.

 * Build and refine cycle-accurate and functional simulators to evaluate new microarchitectural concepts.
 * Propose innovative CPU microarchitecture features and analyse their impact on performance, power and area.
 * Profile workloads, identify bottlenecks and perform sensitivity analysis to guide CPU optimisation.
 * Work closely with architecture, hardware, software and performance engineering teams.


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