Floating Point Logic Design

(US) Santa Clara CA , Austin TX, Portland OR, Fort Collins CO

Engineering – Silicon Engineering /

Full-time /

Hybrid

Full-time positions are open in the areas of floating point and logic design.

As a Floating Point & Logic Design Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:
Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power
Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance

Thorough knowledge of CPU or AI accelerator design work experience in one or more of the following areas:
In-depth knowledge of IEEE-754, and experience in optimizing FMA operations.
Creativity in designing various implementation methods to balance performance, power, and area when dealing with both integer and floating point operations for high performance, energy efficient components.
Expertise in coding complex mathematical functions (such as logarithms, exponentials, etc.) at a very fine level of precision using C or other high-level programming languages.
Working knowledge of Hector, c2rtl, or similar tools used for formal verification.
Understanding the algorithms used in common ALUs like multipliers and the tradeoff between area and power.
Knowledge of System Verilog
Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
Experience in C or C++ programming