CPU Research Engineer (Contractor) A leading semiconductor organisation is seeking a CPU Research Engineer to work on next-generation mobile processor microarchitecture, focusing on performance-per-watt improvements and advanced out-of-order execution design. Successful candidates will research, model, and optimise CPU architectures, contributing to the design of high-efficiency mobile CPUs through simulation, profiling, and microarchitectural innovation. This is a highly technical role combining academic research depth with practical CPU design impact. Computer architecture (superscalar, out-of-order execution) • Performance and power optimisation (IPC, perf-per-watt analysis) • Hardware performance counters and workload profiling • C, C++, Python, and assembly (ARM64 or RISC-V) • Academic research integration into CPU design CPU Architecture / Microarchitecture / Out-of-Order Execution / Branch Prediction / gem5 / Simulation / C++ / Python / ARM / RISC-V / Performance Modelling / LLVM / Compiler / Mobile CPU / Semiconductor / Research Engineer By applying to this role you understand that we may collect your personal data and store and process it on our systems.
