Senior CPU Architect - ISA / MIPS

This is a key position as a senior architect - to work on the latest developments in CPU architecture - for improvements in processing power, performance and optimisation.

Salary available is dependent on experience: circa £100k and above

Main Responsibilities

• Performance analysis of applications of interest to propose new instructions and ISA extensions.
• Reworking and optimization of critical parts of applications to support new ISA.
• Implementation of proposed new instructions or uArch tweaks in performance simulator for evaluation of possible performance benefits.

Requirement

• Deep understanding of modern CPU architectures
• Knowledge and experience of using of latest Aarch64 or X86 instruction sets.
• Background in performance analysis, profiling and workload characterization.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills
• ISA architectures / ISA extensions
• MIPS

Considered as a plus

• Experience in developing and using performance simulators like GEM5 (O3 model), Sniper or others is a big plus.
• Experience in developing and using dynamic binary instrumentation infrastructures like QEMU or DynamoRIO or x86 PIN is a plus.
• Knowledge of NPU/GPU architecture
• Experience in simulator development for NPU/GPU
• Experience in implementing instructions in the ARM/x86 architecture is preferred.