Intel
Senior CPU Architecture and Benchmarking Engineer
$191K–$269K
US, Oregon, Hillsboro · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience with a bachelor's degree, or 6+ years with a master's degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline; or a Master's Degree in a related discipline.
About the job
Investigates CPU microarchitecture through low-level benchmarking and simulation, then turns performance findings into architectural guidance and recommendations.
What you'll do
- Design and analyze microbenchmarks to characterize CPU behavior and performance.
- Assess software-stack effects and identify power/performance gaps and architectural mitigations.
- Collaborate with silicon, simulation, backend, and RTL teams to evaluate designs and communicate findings.
What they ask for
- Deep understanding of out-of-order CPU microarchitecture.
- Experience designing and interpreting low-level CPU microbenchmarks.
- Proficiency in assembly, low-level performance tooling, C/C++, and scripting languages such as Python.
- Strong performance-analysis skills, including bottleneck identification and quantitative trade-off evaluation.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with cycle-accurate CPU performance simulators.
- Experience with RTL, software-stack performance impacts, or translating benchmark results into architectural recommendations.
Pay
$190,610.00-269,100.00 USD (target compensation; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
assembly, EMON/PMU counters, VTune, C/C++, Python, cycle-accurate CPU performance simulators, RTL
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