Processor Architecture Trainee
DECCANX
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFresher1h agovia LinkedIn
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- Freshers and up to 1 year
- Must know
- PythonC++ExcelGit
- Work
- On-site in Bengaluru
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
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- Listed
- 1 Nov 2026 · still open
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About the Role
This role is for graduates who are fascinated by how processors are organised: pipelines, caches, branch prediction, and the way a many-core design shares memory. You will study the microarchitecture behind DECCANX designs, including the 13-stage RISC-V core and the N1X-TITAN GEN1 architecture target, and test ideas through small simulation experiments.
Key Responsibilities
- Study pipeline stages, hazards, forwarding, and branch prediction in DECCANX processor designs.
- Build simple cycle-level models in C++ or Python to test architectural ideas.
- Compare design options and write up trade-offs for review.
- Check architecture documents for consistency and flag contradictions.
- Support RTL engineers by clarifying intended behaviour from the specification.
- Summarise findings as short, evidence-based design notes.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- C++
- Python
- RISC-V toolchain
- Spreadsheets and plotting
- Git
Qualifications
- Computer architecture fundamentals: Strong Pipelining, caches, memory hierarchy, and ISA concepts are the daily vocabulary.
- Digital logic: Working knowledge. You need to reason about what hardware can do in a cycle.
- C++ or Python for modelling: Working knowledge. Experiments are written as small simulators and analysis scripts.
- RISC-V instruction set basics: Working knowledge. DECCANX cores are RISC-V based.
- Analytical reasoning with numbers: Strong. Trade-offs are argued with calculations, not opinions.
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with a cycle-accurate simulator.
- Exposure to parallel computing concepts.
- Reading research papers on microarchitecture.
What you will learn
- Out-of-order execution concepts: rename, issue, wakeup, retirement.
- How parallelism is exploited at instruction, thread, and data level.
- Writing architecture decision records.
Your first 90 days
- First 30 days: Read the architecture specs and reproduce one pipeline diagram from first principles.
- Days 31 to 60: Build a small model that answers one architectural question.
- Days 61 to 90: Write and present a design note with recommendations.
Who fits: You enjoy asking why a design is shaped the way it is and can defend a conclusion with numbers.