Processor Power Lead

SiFive • Austin, TX

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About The Position

About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are. Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time. Are you ready? To learn more about SiFive’s phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA’s prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages. Job Description: The Role: A successful candidate will leverage their extensive experience to guide the architecture, design and PD team to achieve state of the art energy efficiency design with the following responsibilities and requirements.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Computer Science / Computer Architecture
• 10+ years of experience in power benchmarking, analysis and modeling
• Experience with power impacts at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels.
• Good knowledge of computer architecture of high performance out-of-order CPU designs.
• Working experience in guiding trade-off between performance and power to arrive at optimal design.
• Experience with ASIC power analysis and optimization.
• Hands-on expertise with either HW development (RTL/implementation flows, verification/validation, backend flows, FPGA flows) or SW development is a strong plus.
• Competency in software engineering best practices needed to maintain and refactor very large object oriented code bases.
• Self-starter, fast learner, strong problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Collect / analyze SiFive IP power consumption.
• Guide architecture and design to optimize our design to achieve state-of-the-art power efficiency
• Develop and deploy power analysis flows, models to analyze power consumption
• Correlate power models with RTL and Silicon
• Develop power models for architecture exploration and development
• Develop innovative methods to predict power of design changes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees