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Introduction

As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market

Your role and responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design and development of a server class, high-
performance Processor CPU for IBM Systems.
- Architect and design Instruction caches, Branch Predictors, Issue queues,
Register Renaming, Load Store Execution and other areas of the IBM 
processor CPU
- Research novel instruction/data prefetching and branch prediction 
architectures.
- 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
Doctorate Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Expertise in Out of Order, Super Scalar, Multi-Threaded Core Architecture
and ISA
- Experience with high frequency, instruction pipeline designs
- In depth understanding of industry microprocessor designs (e.g., x86,
ARM, or RISC-V processor designs)
- Proficiency of RTL design with Verilog or VHDL
- Nice to haves
- Knowledge of verification principles and coverage
- High-level knowledge of Linux operating system
- Knowledge of object oriented languages and scripting languages
- Understanding of Agile development processes
- Experience with DevOps design methodologies and tools

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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