Principal Engineer, Architecture & Performance Research for Data Center and Agentic AI CPU

What you'll do

• Lead performance analysis and modeling to guide architectural trade-offs and long-term design direction.
• Drive CPU microarchitecture and architecture-to-implementation alignment with RTL design teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, and contribute research leading to patents and publications.

What they ask for

• At least 5 years in CPU microarchitecture, architecture research, or performance engineering, with a track record of driving architectural direction.
• Experience designing and evaluating high-performance CPU architectures, such as RISC-V, ARM, or x86, and quantitative performance analysis and modeling.
• Deep expertise in a major microarchitectural domain and hands-on experience building, extending, and applying architectural simulators and performance models.
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills; ability to carry architectural concepts through RTL implementation and silicon validation.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML, agentic AI, or data center workloads; AI-driven architecture and design methodologies.
• Experience with memory-centric CPU-memory co-design, system-level PPA trade-offs, or taking designs through tape-out and silicon validation.

Pay

$219,000 — $351,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

RISC-V, ARM, x86, gem5, C/C++, Python, RTL

AI focus

Research CPU architecture for agentic AI workloads and develop AI-driven methodologies for architectural exploration and design.