Introduction
At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You?ll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation. With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress.
Your role and responsibilities
- Lead the 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 education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 8 to 12 or more years of demonstrated experience in architecting and designing Out-of-Order 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
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Knowledge of Instruction Fetch & 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
Job Title
Logic Design Engineer ? Core Instruction Sequencing Unit
Job ID
116293
City / Township / Village
Bangalore
State / Province
Karnataka
Country
India
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Travel required
No Travel
Company
(0063) IBM India Private Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No