Lead Logic Design - CORE EXE VSU Unit

Introduction

As a Hardware Engineer at IBM Systems Lab, you’ll get to work on the systems

that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of

engineering professionals who enable customers to make better decisions

quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market

Your Role And Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design and development of Processor Core Vector-

Scalar Execution unit for high-performance IBM Systems.

• Architect and design Fixed point/Floating point/Vector/SIMD/Crypto
  
  

instructions of a high performance processor CPU

• Develop the features, present the proposed architecture in the High level
  
  

design discussions

• Estimate the overall effort to develop the feature.
• Estimate silicon area and wire usage for the feature.
• Develop micro-architecture, Design RTL, Collaborate with other Core
  
  

units, Verification, DFT, Physical design, Timing, FW, SW teams to develop

the feature

• Signoff the Pre-silicon Design that meets all the functional, area and
  
  

timing goals

• Participate in post silicon lab bring-up and validation of the hardware
• Lead a team of engineers, guide and mentor team members, represent
  
  

as Logic Design Lead in global forums

Preferred Education

Doctorate Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 12 or more years of demonstrated experience in architecting and
  
  

designing Execution unit of CPU

• Hands on experience of implementing Arithmetic/Crypto/SIMD functions
• Deep expertise in Out of Order, Super Scalar, Multi-Threaded Core
  
  

Architecture and ISA

• Experience with high frequency, instruction pipeline designs
• At least 1 generation of Processor Core silicon bring up experience
• In depth understanding of industry microprocessor designs (e.g., x86,
  
  

ARM, or RISC-V processor designs)

• Proficiency of RTL design with Verilog or VHDL
• Nice to haves
• Knowledge of instruction dispatch and load/store units
• Knowledge of verification principles and coverage
• High-level knowledge of Linux operating system
• Knowledge of one object oriented language and scripting
  
  

language

• Understanding of Agile development processes
• Experience with DevOps design methodologies and tools
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

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