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CPU Circuit Design Engineer

Intel Corporation · Posted Nov 11, 2026

Austin, Texas, United States
Hybrid
Full-time · Senior
$142K–$269K per year
6+ years

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As a CPU Circuit Design Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the performance of Intel's cutting-edge CPUs. You will design, simulate, and optimize circuits to achieve the best trade-offs between speed, power, area, and reliability, ensuring that our products meet stringent quality and schedule demands.

Compensation

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $141,910.00-269,100.00 USD

Responsibilities

Drives performance verification (PV) methodology and circuit / timing quality signoff for the CPU team
Evaluates new process nodes through circuit simulations and/or block scaling methods, recommends frequency targets for the CPU with an early understanding of u-architectural growth
Makes informed trade-offs between performance, power, area, and effort
Works with design domains RTL/circuit/SD to converge to timing targets with no compromise on quality or schedule
Own pre-to-post silicon VF correlation and drive debug of circuit marginality sightings

Requirements

Bachelors in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Bachelors in Computer Engineering
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Masters in Computer Engineering

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