Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM, 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 IBM 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 Front end of pipeline units for high-performance IBM Systems.
• Architect and design I-Cache, Instruction Fetch, Branch Prediction and Decode units 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.

• 8 or more years of demonstrated experience in architecting and designing specific CPU unit(eg. I-Cache, Instruction Fetch, Branch Prediction, Instruction Decode)
• Hands on experience of different Branch Prediction techniques
• 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
• Knowledge of at least one object oriented or functional programming language and scripting language.
• Nice to haves
• Knowledge of instruction decode and handling pipeline hazards
• Knowledge of verification principles and coverage
• High-level knowledge of Linux operating system
• Understanding of Agile development processes
• Experience with DevOps design methodologies and tools

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