Core Performance Architect

SiFive•Austin, TX

1d•$158,760 - $194,040•Onsite

About The Position

SiFive, a leader in RISC-V CPU IPs, is looking for an experienced leader to help SiFive 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
1+ years of experience in high performance processor development
1+ 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.