Senior Principal CPU Microarchitect

GlobalFoundries

Sr Principal CPU Microarchitect at GlobalFoundries driving advanced compute architecture solutions. Lead design responsibilities and mentor colleagues in CPU microarchitecture.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $171,000 - $296,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Creation of a microarchitectural specification for a major block from early exploration through micro architectural definition in conjunction with the performance modeling team and arriving at a detailed specification RTL design of the major functional block.
Ownership includes the design definition, implementation and convergence of the block to project requirements (performance, timing, power, area, schedule)
Support of the verification team for test bench development, test plan development and test content development, including performance verification
Work with physical design teams, and design for testability teams to implement and converge physical design and testability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum BS and 15+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with CPU microarchitecture, in at least one of the following areas: instruction fetch, branch prediction, instruction decode, instruction scheduling, out of order execution, register renaming, integer or floating point execution, exception handling, load/store execution, cache design, or memory management unit
Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL
Experience with commercial simulators and debugging tools
Expert in logic design

Benefits

Comp & perks

GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer, cultivating a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity, efficiency and innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected, valued and heard.
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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Hard Skills & Tools

microarchitecture specificationRTL designperformance modelingtest bench developmenttest plan developmentperformance verificationVerilogSystem VerilogVHDLlogic design

Certifications

BS degree