Looking for a CPU performance modeling architect to take responsibility over the performance aspects of new CPU instructions or modes of operation. The role includes but is not limited to:
Partners with lead SW and HW architects to co-invent optimal HW and SW solutions that come to address requirements. Influences the direction based on experiments and simulation data.
Models CPU functionality, performance and/or power in pre-silicon simulators
Defines and runs performance experiments to aid feature definition. Such experiments can be performed on a pre-silicon simulation environment or in a real system or on a combination of both or even in combination with analytical models.
Provides experimental/proof of concept for new features and implementation alternatives meeting performance constraints.
Analyzes the bottlenecks of current CPUs on workloads that reflect CPU future usages.
Potentially (in the future), lead a team doing above activities.
An adequately qualified candidate can also become the leader of definition for some features in addition to all the roles above.

As HW Architect Team Leader, you will combine deep technical leadership with people leadership. You will shape next-generation networking silicon while building and mentoring a strong architecture team.

What Youll Be Doing
Lead, manage, and mentor a team of HW architects, fostering technical excellence and innovation.
Drive research, evaluation, and architectural definition of next-generation SoCs - from product requirements through production.
Define next-generation Packet Processor / Datapath / Congestion Management architectures for high-performance, complex SoC Ethernet and NIC switches.
Lead system architecture and detailed micro-architecture definition across major functional blocks.
Collaborate cross-functionally with design, verification, modeling, software, and other architecture teams to ensure end-to-end system alignment.
Identify and evaluate new technologies, methodologies, and architectural approaches for future products.
Provide technical direction, make key architectural trade-offs, and ensure execution excellence.

Required ASIC Design Verification Technical Lead, High-Speed DSP
About the job
In this role, youll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers our most demanding AI/ML applications. Youll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.
As an ASIC Design Verification Technical Lead, you will define how we verifiy the physical-layer Digital Signal Processing (DSP) pipelines powering our next-generation AI hardware accelerators. You will drive the shift toward Emulation and Post-Silicon Correlation, ensuring that our architectural reference models and pre-silicon simulations perfectly match the physical behavior of the high-speed silicon in our planetary-scale AI data centers.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and scale constrained-random verification environments using SystemVerilog and UVM for high-speed physical-layer DSP blocks.
Build co-simulation frameworks and predictors to compare RTL implementation output against high-level algorithmic models.
Define and execute functional coverage plans, utilizing covergroups and SystemVerilog Assertions to verify architectural corner cases, fixed-point quantization effects, and numerical overflows.
Author dynamic stimulus sequences and virtual sequencers to stress-test adaptive feedback loops under realistic channel impairments, including noise, ISI, and high-frequency jitter profiles.
Lead the debugging of RTL and environment failures, collaborating closely with algorithm and DSP designers to isolate and resolve discrepancies between the RTL implementation and the specification.

Required RTL Design Technical Lead, Networking, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
As part of our Server Chip Design team, you will use your ASIC design experience to be part of a team that creates the SoC VLSI design cycle from start to finish. You will collaborate closely with design and verification engineers in active projects, creating architecture definitions with RTL coding, and running block level simulations.
In this role, you will contribute in all phases of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs from design specification to production. You will collaborate with members of architecture, software, verification, power, timing, synthesis, etc. to specify and deliver high quality SoC/RTL. You will solve technical problems with innovative micro-architecture and practical logic solutions, and evaluate design options with complexity, performance, power and area in mind.
We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Clouds Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Define the block level design documents such as interface protocol, block diagram, transaction flow, pipeline, and more.
Perform RTL development (e.g., coding and debug in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL), function/performance simulation debug, and Lint/CDC/FV/UPF checks.
Participate in synthesis, timing/power, and FPGA/silicon bring-up.
Participate in test plan and coverage analysis of the block and SOC-level verification.
Communicate and work with multi-disciplined and multi-site teams.

Our team at the Huawei Computing Network Innovation Lab is looking for exceptional talent to join us and lead the development of next-generation data centers. We create cutting-edge technologies that synergize software and hardware in tandem to accelerate compute, storage, and networking at large scale. We aim to drive innovation and deliver software-defined infrastructure and algorithms for HPC, AI/ML, and Big Data applications.
We are looking for an outstanding Research Team Lead with deep hands-on expertise in large-scale distributed systems, AI framework infrastructure, and performance optimization on custom accelerators. If you are a visionary technical leader, a skilled communicator, and a team builder who thrives at the frontier of systems and AI research - you're welcome on board.

What Will You Be Doing?
Lead and grow a world-class team of researchers and engineers working on distributed AI infrastructure and systems software.
Architect and own the software infrastructure enabling distributed training and inference on Huawei's custom accelerator hardware (e.g., Ascend NPU).
Drive research and development on communication libraries, runtime systems, memory management, and graph execution & synchronization at scale.
Optimize end-to-end performance across large-scale clusters, covering both scale-up (multi-device) and scale-out (multi-node) configurations.
Design and implement high-performance communication backends and collective operations (AllReduce, AllGather, broadcast) for distributed training workloads.
Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware architects, compiler teams, and framework engineers to co-design hardware-software solutions.
Publish and present research findings at top international venues (NeurIPS, EuroSys, SC, MLSys, OSDI) and represent the team externally.
Mentor engineers and researchers, conduct performance and growth reviews, and shape team culture and technical direction.
Partner with top academic institutions and open-source communities to advance the state of the art in distributed AI systems.

Required Senior Silicon DFT Engineer, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
In this role, you will play a crucial role in Design for Testing (DFT) Architecture and DFT design, and support devices of extreme complexity to production. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership in DFT, developing flows, automation, and methodology, planning DFT activities, tracking the DFT quality matrix throughout the project life-cycle, and providing sign-off DFT to tapeout.
We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Clouds Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Lead and execute activities in the design, implementation, and verification of DFT solutions for large-scale ASICs.
Develop DFT strategy and architecture, including hierarchical DFT, Memory Built-In Self Test (MBIST), and Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG).
Work with other Engineering teams (e.g., Design, Verification, Physical Design) to ensure that DFT requirements are met and mutual dependencies are managed.
Manage the DFT team's workload and deliverables, provide technical leadership and guidance to the team.
Lead DFT execution of a silicon project (e.g., planning, execution, tracking, quality, and signoff).

Required Senior SOC DFT Engineer, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
In this role, you will play a crucial role in Design for Testing (DFT) Architecture and DFT design, and support devices of extreme complexity to production. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership in DFT, developing flows, automation, and methodology, planning DFT activities, tracking the DFT quality matrix throughout the project life-cycle, and providing sign-off DFT to tapeout.
We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Clouds Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Lead and execute activities in the design, implementation, and verification of DFT solutions for large-scale ASICs.
Develop DFT strategy and architecture, including hierarchical DFT, Memory Built-In Self Test (MBIST), and Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG).
Work with other Engineering teams (e.g., Design, Verification, Physical Design) to ensure that DFT requirements are met and mutual dependencies are managed.
Manage the DFT team's workload and deliverables, provide technical leadership and guidance to the team.
Lead DFT execution of a silicon project (e.g., planning, execution, tracking, quality, and signoff).

Required Senior RTL Design Engineer, Digital Signal Processing
About the job
In this role, youll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers our most demanding AI/ML applications. Youll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.
As an RTL Design Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the physical implementation of next-generation TPU technology building ASICs for high-speed communication systems. You will take ownership of complex blocks, translating mathematical models into bit-exact silicon. Your expertise in front-end design flows will be vital in delivering the hardware that powers our advanced AI models and cloud services.
We're the driving force behind our groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Cloud, Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Responsibilities
Design and implement high-speed blocks, taking end-to-end ownership of complex modules within the larger system.
Solve complex implementation issues related to GHz-frequency timing closure and advanced process nodes.
Transform high-level architectural specifications and communication theory models into efficient, bit-exact implementations.
Perform fixed-point analysis and micro-architectural trade-offs. Execute and optimize the front-end design flow for your assigned components to ensure, sign-off quality designs.
Collaborate closely with verification teams to develop bit-exact C++/SystemC models and ensure seamless integration.

Required Silicon Test and DFT Engineer, Cloud
About the job
In this role, youll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers our most demanding AI/ML applications. Youll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining whats possible. We empower customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity.
We're behind groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Cloud, Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with Architecture, Design and Verification teams to develop new product bring-up, validation, characterization, and qualification strategies and manufacturing test solutions for new High Performance Computing (HPC) products in advanced process technologies.
Verify test solutions on pre-silicon models (simulation or emulation) and develop Automated Test Equipment (ATE) test modules and binning flows.
Develop and validate test programs on Automated Test Equipment (ATE) platforms for new product integration (NPI) in preparation for high-volume manufacturing (HVM), working with ATE vendors and internal cross-functional teams.
Manage product sustainment support, including analyzing volume data, improving test time and yield, assessing test escapees and return merchandise authorizations (RMAs), localizing failures, implementing containment measures, and partnering with design, manufacturing, and quality and reliability teams to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
Build tools, flows and methodologies to continuously improve and automate the testing life-cycle.

Required Micro-Architect, Networking, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining whats possible. We empower customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity.
We're behind our groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Cloud, Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Responsibilities
Lead Design Activities at IPs, SubSystems(S.S) and SoC.
Define the block-level design documents such as interface protocol, block diagram, transaction flow, pipeline, and more.
Perform RTL development (e.g., coding and debug in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL), function/performance simulation debug, and Lint/CDC/FV/UPF checks.
Participate in synthesis, timing/power, and FPGA/silicon bring-up, as well as test plan development and coverage analysis for block and SOC-level verification.
Communicate and collaborate with multi-disciplined and multi-site teams.