Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Senior Design Engineer in the Core Performance Modeling team contributes to CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis. Technical contributions focus on CPU microarchitecture performance simulator development, workload and performance analysis, and RTL versus performance model correlation.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to optimize CPU microarchitecture performance.
- Develop and expand cycle-accurate core microarchitecture performance simulators.
- Perform workload, benchmark, and trace analysis.
- Correlate RTL implementations against performance models.
- Support CPU microarchitecture development and analysis efforts across the team.
What you'll need
- Experience in CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis.
- Experience with cycle-accurate microarchitecture performance simulator development.
- Background in computer architecture through relevant coursework or industry work experience.
- Technical background in computing software, including operating systems, compilers, and applications.
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
Nice to have
- C++ programming and scripting language capabilities.
- Pre-silicon performance analysis experience.
- Published papers or filed patents contributing to the field of computer architecture.
Skills: CPU microarchitecture, performance modeling, simulator development, cycle-accurate, C++
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 81-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
489
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Median days since first seen
81 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$230k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (489 roles · 67 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 489 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 271 | 3521 · 119 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 70 d | 81 d (+11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU microarchitecture, performance modeling, simulator development, cycle-accurate, C++
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 79 open roles · median 91 d
- NVIDIA · 67 open roles · median 83 d
- AMD (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 70 d
- Arm Holdings · 29 open roles · median 13 d
- Apple · 28 open roles · median 14 d
- Micron Technology · 21 open roles · median 109 d
How we counted: 489 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 67 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.