Senior/Staff Design Engineer
GlobalFoundries· Semiconductors· Jun 9, 2026 · 5mo agoPosted 140 days ago
Santa Clara, United States
In office
Full-time
Staff
$69K–$202K
2+ years exp
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Job description
About MIPS GlobalFoundries:
GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies.
With the addition of the MIPS team, GF now offer a rich portfolio of RISC-V CPUs, especially AI-enabled processors for the Physical AI world.
Summary of Role:
We are seeking recent-graduates who are eager to become a world-class CPU IP Design Engineer. Responsible for developing and owning RTL development of our latest AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the design including Functional Features, Performance, Power, and Area.
Essential Responsibilities:
Drive the micro-architecture and design of critical blocks of the CPU core
Design of RISC-V Vector CPU core and its custom extensions
Design of AI-enabled Matrix engine to augment the Vector CPU
Explore high-performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team
Perform Microarchitecture development and specification- from early high-level architectural exploration, through microarchitectural research and arrive at detailed specifications
Configure Design Features Development, assessment, and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
Perform Functional verification support and assist in the design verification strategy
Assist with the verification of RTL design performance goals
Partner with a multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power
Other Responsibilities:
Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
Required Qualifications:
Knowledge of the pipeline stages of an in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU core
Knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including one or more of the following areas:
* Instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction techniques
* Instruction scheduling, register renaming, Reorder Buffer (ROB)
* Out-of-order execution
* Integer and Floating-point execution
* Load/Store execution
* Instruction and Data Prefetch
* Vector data path
* Cache and memory subsystems
Knowledge of System Verilog, Verilog and/or VHDL
Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
Bachelor s with 3-7 or Master’s with 2-5 years of experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with designing RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU
Experience with Hardware multi-threading, virtualization, and SIMD designs
Experience with vector and matrix-enabled CPUs, preferably RISC-V processors.
Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques
Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python
Knowledge of Cache coherency and memory consistency
Understanding of CPU integration at SoC level
Understanding of Safety and Security microarchitecture
Expected Salary Range
$69,000.00 - $202,000.00
The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at usaccommodations gf.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.
GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory.
All policies and processes which pertain to employees including recruitment, selection, training, utilization, promotion, compensation, benefits, extracurricular programs, and termination are created and implemented without regard to age, ethnicity, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic or category specified by local, state or federal law
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