IBM Processor Architecture and Logic design Engineer

Responsibilities

-Lead the Architecture, Design and development of processor L2 and LLC (Last Level
Cache) for high-performance IBM Systems.
- Design and architect L2 cache and LLC as driven by capacity, latency, bandwidth, and RAS
requirements.
- Develop the features, present the proposed architecture in the High level design
discussions
- Develop micro-architecture, Design RTL, Collaborate with Verification, DFT, Physical
design, FW, SW teams to develop the feature
- Signoff the Pre-silicon Design that meets all the functional, area and timing goals
- Participate in silicon 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.
- Estimate the overall effort to develop the feature.
- Estimate silicon area and wire usage for the feature


Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

-8+ years of relevant experience
- At least 1 generation of processor L2 cache or LLC design delivery leadership.
- Expertise in cache coherence protocols for symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), covering
both chip SMP and multi-socket SMP.
- Experience with NuCA / NuMA (Non-uniform Cache / Memory architecture) architectures
and implementations.
- Working knowledge of memory consistency, store ordering, weakly and strongly ordered
memory.
- Experience in logical and physical design of caches including directories (tags, set
associative memories), data SRAM, design for low latency, multiple parallel finite state
machine design, deadlock-free designs.