Core Performance Architect

SiFive•Austin, TX

1d•$178,848 - $218,592•Remote

About The Position

SiFive, a leader in RISC-V CPU IPs, is looking for an experienced leader in helping SiFive to research and develop next generation high performance processors. The performance architect will guide the performance team to work closely with the architect and the design team to research and develop the highest performance core architecture / micro-architecture.

Requirements

MS in Computer Science / Computer Architecture
3+ years of experience in high performance processor development
3+ years involved in the engineering team to deliver HW or SW products.
Hands-on expertise with either HW development (RTL/implementation flows, verification/validation, backend flows, FPGA flows); FPGA debug, including the use of Integrated Logic Analyzer for waveform capture and debug
Knowledge in analyzing performance bottlenecks in micro-architecture and software stack. Awareness of potential security holes is a plus.
Good foundation in computer architecture of high performance out-of-order CPU designs. Awareness of known industry micro-architectures is a plus.
Good foundation in workload characterization to identify HW/SW performance bottlenecks
Good foundation in workload reduction techniques for efficient performance simulation and projection

Nice To Haves

Awareness of potential security holes is a plus.
Awareness of known industry micro-architectures is a plus.

Responsibilities

Work along with a team of performance engineers to research, model and develop architecture / micro-architecture ideas to build state-of-the-art performance processors that reach our aggressive performance targets.
Design and carry out experiments to research and develop architecture / micro-architecture features
Work with the design team to implement and deliver performance target in RTL