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Senior CPU HW Performance Architect
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB21, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-16
Listing for:
European Tech Recruit
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-16
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Hardware Engineer, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Senior CPU HW Performance Architect
Location: Cambridge, UK
Type: Permanent
Experience: 6+ years
About the RoleOur client is a leading global technology organisation with a major R&D presence in Cambridge. They are looking for a Senior CPU HW Performance Architect to join their CPU Performance team and contribute to the development of next-generation high-performance CPU cores.
You will work across performance modelling, workload analysis and microarchitectural exploration, helping guide critical design decisions across performance, power and area.
Key Responsibilities- Define next-generation CPU microarchitecture and high-level specifications in collaboration with hardware and software teams.
- Build and refine cycle-accurate and functional simulators to evaluate new microarchitectural concepts.
- Propose innovative CPU microarchitecture features and analyse their impact on performance, power and area.
- Profile workloads, identify bottlenecks and perform sensitivity analysis to guide CPU optimisation.
- Work closely with architecture, hardware, software and performance engineering teams.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, with significant relevant industry experience, or a PhD.
- Strong understanding of CPU microarchitecture, particularly areas such as fetch/decode, branch prediction, rename/dispatch, out-of-order execution, execution units, load/store, prefetching and memory hierarchy.
- Good understanding of performance, power and area trade-offs in high-performance CPU design.
- Strong software engineering and performance profiling skills.
- Programming experience with modern C++ and Python.
- Strong analytical and debugging ability.
Deep expertise in CPU architecture and microarchitecture.
- Experience taking microarchitectural innovations from concept towards silicon.
- Hands-on experience with cycle-accurate simulators and performance models.
- Pre-silicon performance analysis experience.
- Understanding of operating systems, compilers and application workloads.
- Patents, publications or other recognised technical contributions.
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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