Performance Architect

Performance Architect

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TECH Global Ltd
• Hertfordshire, North West, UK

My client is one of the world’s fastest growing and most exciting technology companies. A FTSE company on the London Stock Exchange, the breadth of technologies and markets it serves involves working with most of the biggest and best semiconductor, consumer electronics, multimedia and App content developers and industry partners in the world. Their technologies feature in many of the world’s most exciting products, from the latest smartphones, tablets and media players to the future wireless home, connected multimedia-rich cars and much more.

In this role, you will work in the MIPS Architecture team designing the next generation high performance, power efficient microprocessor cores with an emphasis on performance/power modelling, analysis, and verification.

Travel to US Imagination sites 2 times a year.

As part of the MIPS Processor Group, you will be a key member of a small team responsible for architecting, designing and verifying innovative multiprocessor technologies used in many of the company’s products.

The MIPS Architecture Team is responsible for architecture definition and evolution, microarchitecture development, and performance modelling, analysis and verification. In this position, you will work with architects, HW designers, and SW/compiler developers to identify opportunities to improve performance and energy efficiency through architectural, microarchitectural, and/or compiler improvements. You will also work with implementation teams to ensure designs meet their targeted performance/power goals.

• Develop and validate architectural models and simulators for quantifying performance and energy consumption
• Analyze target workloads and benchmarks to guide the development of processor architecture, microarchitecture, and compilers
• Develop visualization and automated infrastructure to increase accuracy and productivity in analysis and verification
• Create performance diagnostics to isolate and measure performance of targeted features and related infrastructure to track results
• Debug performance issues and identify necessary repairs

• Knowledge of processor architecture and micro-architecture concepts such as pipelines, caching, coherence, and branch prediction
• Experience with architectural simulators for performance and power estimation
• Ability to program fluently in C++, Perl, Python, and Unix scripting

• Self-starter – able to work both alone and as part of a team
• Can-Do approach to workload
• Friendly – outgoing personality, gets on with all types of people
• Tenacious – determined not to let anything stop getting the job done
• Open – enjoys working in an informal environment
• Dedicated – willingness to work from time to time over extended hours in order to achieve goals set by immediate manager or demanded by business
• A passion for excellence and attention to detail
• Team player

The open, collaborative work environment at Imagination encourages open conversation and innovation.

MS or PhD in EE, CE, or CS or equivalent experience