Logic Design Lead - Chip Infrastructure and Security

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 Instruction Sequencing Unit for high-performance Processor CPU of IBM Systems.
• Architect and design Instruction Dispatch to Issue queues, Register Renaming for Out of Order Execution, Issue instructions to Execution Pipelines, Reordering Buffers for completion 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

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8 or more years of demonstrated experience in architecting and designing Instruction Dispatch unit of CPU
• Hands of experience of implementing Issue Queues, Register renaming and forwarding, Reordering Buffer and Pipeline flush/exception handling
• 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 Decode and Execution 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 Expertise

• None