Principal CPU Architect / Chief CPU Architect

Cambridgeshire, England £130-150k (and higher, dependent on experience) Job ID:

Rob Hudson

This is a key position as a Principal CPU Architect or Chief CPU Architect (dependent on levels and relevance of experience) – to work on the latest developments in CPU architecture – for improvements in processing power, performance and optimisation.

Main responsibilities

• Performance analysis of applications of interest to propose new instructions and ISA extensions
• Reworking and optimisation 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 characterisa...