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 processor L2 and LLC (Last Level Cache) for high-performance IBM Systems.

　　Design and architect L2 cache and LLC as driven by capacity, latency, bandwidth, and RAS requirements.

　　Develop the features, present the proposed architecture in the High level design discussions

　　Develop micro-architecture, Design RTL, Collaborate with Verification, DFT, Physical design, FW, SW teams to develop the feature

　　Signoff the Pre-silicon Design that meets all the functional, area and timing goals

　　Participate in silicon 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.

　　Estimate the overall effort to develop the feature.

　　Estimate silicon area and wire usage for the feature.

　　Required Technical and Professional Expertise

　　8 to 15 years of relevant experience

　　At least 1 generation of processor L2 cache or LLC design delivery leadership.

　　Expertise in cache coherence protocols for symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), covering both chip SMP and multi-socket SMP.

　　Experience with NuCA / NuMA (Non-uniform Cache / Memory architecture) architectures and implementations.

　　Working knowledge of memory consistency, store ordering, weakly and strongly ordered memory.

　　Experience in logical and physical design of caches including directories (tags, set associative memories), data SRAM, design for low latency, multiple parallel finite state machine design, deadlock-free designs.

　　Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

　　NoneAbout Business UnitIBM 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.

　　This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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