Senior CPU RTL Design Engineer

Intel Corporation

Senior CPU RTL Design Engineer at Intel designing high-performance microprocessors. Collaborating on architecture and logic design with cross-functional teams to drive innovative solutions.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeAustin • Oregon, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $164,470 - $311,890 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborates, drives and develops logic design, register transfer level (RTL) coding, and simulation for a CPU required to generate cell libraries, functional units, and the CPU IP block for integration in full chip designs.
Participates actively in the definition of architecture and microarchitecture features of the CPU being designed.
Applies various strategies, tools, and methods to write RTL and optimize logic to qualify the design to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals as well as design integrity for physical implementation.
Reviews the verification plan and implementation to ensure design features are verified correctly and resolves and implements corrective measures for failing RTL tests to ensure correctness of features.
Provide technical leadership and support to the design team leadership including proposing creative, innovative methodology and process initiatives to consistently improve efficiency and quality.
Work closely with architecture and backend teams and with other design teams towards achieving best-in-class products.
Build a strong and technically vital organization. Cultivate and reinforce appropriate group values, norms and behaviors.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years of work experience OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, Engineering, or related field with 6+ years of work experience.
6+ years of experience in silicon development in CPU microarchitecture and logic design.
5+ years of experience in technical leadership including delivering successful IP Projects.
6+ years of experience with Timing Closure, Power Convergence; integer and/or floating point, OOO execution, reservation station design.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pay
Stock bonuses
Health insurance
Retirement plans
Vacation

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Hard Skills & Tools

RTL codinglogic designCPU microarchitecturetiming closurepower convergenceinteger executionfloating point executionreservation station designverification plandesign integrity

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationinnovationprocess improvementteam supportefficiency enhancementquality assuranceproblem-solvingcommunicationorganizational skills