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We are looking for an experienced technical leader and manager to drive microarchitecture and RTL development in multiple areas of our performant cores, leading the CPU RTL team at this growing site.\nDescription\nAs a CPU microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:\nMicroarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification\nRTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals\nValidation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification\nPerformance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance\nDesign delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power\nMinimum Qualifications\nMinimum BS and 15+ years of relevant industry experience\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrevious experience technically leading a team of senior engineers to deliver complex microarchitecture definition and RTL development, including direct individual technical contribution\nRecord of mentoring and supporting the technical development of other engineers\nExpertise in one or more of the following areas of microprocessor architecture: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems - 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