CPU Micro-Architect / RTL (Lead & IC Engineers)

At NUVACORE we're designing a new general-purpose CPU core for the sustained, intensive demands of AI infrastructure and agentic computing, not the workloads of the past.As engineers within the CPU team and as leads of CPU units (fetch, decode/rename, scalar execute, fp/vector execute, load/store, memory management/TLB, prefetching, debug/trace, system/IO, and multi-level cache subsystem), you will be writing specifications and developing RTL for the CPU which targets and delivers industry leading power, performance, and area.

THE ROLE

As a CPU Micro-Architect/RTL Engineer, you will participate in the following:

• Micro-architecture development and specification - starting from a performance driven design strategy, you will work with our performance modeling team and study early micro-architectures and converge on a design captured in a detailed specification. Critical understanding of the various pipelines and intra-unit communication will be necessary to build a clean yet performant design.

• RTL design - develop and refine RTL which targets the power, performance, area and timing goals. A solid understanding of the modern Verilog standards is a plus, enabling you to write RTL which is flexible and robust, configurable, and scalable.

• Verification - assist the verification team in all forms of CPU verification used, such as testbench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for formal verification

• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance architecture and verification team to verify that the RTL meets targeted performance.

• Physical design - work with the PD engineering team to implement and verify the physical design meets the goals. Be able to iterate and refine the RTL design. Incorporate improvements for timing, power, area, DFT, and reliability.

REQUIREMENTS — MUST TO HAVE

BS or MS with 15+ (leads) and 7+ (ICs) years experience in high-performance, low-power CPU design

REQUIREMENTS — NICE TO HAVE

Expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch, branch prediction; instruction decoding, scheduling and register renaming; out-of-order execution; integer and floating point execution; load/store execution; prefetching; cache and memory subsystems; translation and memory management; memory coherence and ordering; power and thermal management; and clocking / reset design

The next great CPU won't build itself. We’re assembling a world-class team across every layer of CPU development, from architecture and design to verification, physical implementation, software, infrastructure, and product delivery. Every discipline matters, and every person has the opportunity to help shape the technology from the ground up.