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You will drive rigorous, low-level investigations into CPU designs, crafting targeted microbenchmarks that expose microarchitectural behavior at fine granularity and translating those findings into actionable architectural guidance. Your work will bridge the gap between silicon measurement, software behavior, and architectural definition, playing a key role in shaping Intel's future CPU roadmap.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, implement, and analyze pinpointed microbenchmarks to explore and characterize low-level microarchitectural behavior including branch prediction, instruction fetch/decode, execution units, memory subsystem, prefetchers, and power delivery interactions\nInvestigate and document microarchitectural details of CPU designs through systematic benchmarking and analysis\nEvaluate the impact of system software layers - including OS schedulers, runtime libraries, compilers, and firmware - on end-product CPU performance and power efficiency\nIdentify power/performance gaps and propose concrete architectural solutions and mitigations\nCollaborate with silicon lab, simulation, backend, and RTL teams to correlate benchmarking findings with pre-silicon models and post-silicon measurements\nExplore and evaluate proposed microarchitectural ideas in CPU performance simulators, providing quantitative measure of value\nDevelop and maintain tooling, test infrastructure, and analysis frameworks to support repeatable and scalable benchmarking workflows\nCommunicate technical findings clearly and persuasively in written reports and presentations to senior engineering and product teams\nTo Be Successful in This Role, You Should Demonstrate\nIntellectual curiosity and a systematic mindset when investigating complex microarchitectural behavior, with the rigor to design experiments that yield clear, reproducible conclusions\nStrong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across silicon, simulation, and software teams to align findings and drive architectural decisions\nThe ability to communicate complex technical findings with clarity and confidence to both engineering peers and senior leadership audiences\nQualifications:\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline with 8+ years of relevant industry experience, OR a Master's Degree in a related discipline with 6+ years of relevant industry experience\nDeep understanding of out-of-order CPU microarchitecture, including pipeline stages, execution resources, memory hierarchy, and power/performance interactions\nDemonstrated experience designing and interpreting low-level microbenchmarks for CPU characterization\nProficiency in assembly programming and low-level performance tooling (e.g., EMON/PMU counters, VTune, or equivalent)\nStrong background in performance analysis methodologies, bottleneck identification, and quantitative trade-off evaluation\nProficiency in C/C++ and scripting languages (Python or similar) for benchmark development and data analysis\nPreferred Qualifications\nFamiliarity with cycle-accurate CPU performance simulators and the ability to model and evaluate new microarchitectural features\nUnderstanding of software stack impacts on CPU performance, including OS scheduler behavior, memory allocators, compiler code generation, and BIOS/firmware tuning\nExperience reading or debugging RTL to investigate microarchitectural behavior or validate benchmark hypotheses\nTrack record of translating benchmarking insights into concrete architectural recommendations or published technical contributions\nJob Type:\nExperienced HireShift:\nShift 1 (United States of America)Primary Location:\nUS, Oregon, HillsboroAdditional Locations:\nPosting Statement:\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.Position of Trust\nN/ABenefits\nWe offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. 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