Customer Engagement Performance Engineer

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:

SiFive is creating RISC-V based CPU IPs faster and cheaper than ever before by combining the best practices of rapid, iterative software design with the proven fidelity of hardware engineering.  We are looking for a talented and driven engineer to work with our customers to evaluate SiFive’s products and develop customized solutions for them. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide support to customers (through the field team or working directly with them) to capture materials (such as traces) to evaluate SiFive products

• Work with internal teams to port, simulate / emulate, and project customer workload performance and provide feedback to customers

• Analyze customer workload performance bottlenecks.  Provide feedback for optimizations.  Work with customer and design team to develop custom solutions for performance, power or area improvements.

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering field.  

• Track record of successful customer engagements.  Board experience and excellent communication skills.  Ability to deliver customer training

• Strong foundation in workload characterization on simulators, emulators and/or silicon platforms to identify HW/SW performance bottlenecks.

• Good knowledge of computer architecture of high performance out-of-order CPU designs.  Hands-on expertise with either HW development (RTL/implementation flows, verification/validation, backend flows, FPGA flows) or SW development is a strong plus. 

• Self-starter, fast learner, strong problem-solving skills

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

Taiwan

Any offer of employment for this position is also contingent on the Company verifying that you are a authorized for access to export-controlled technology under applicable export control laws or, if you are not already authorized, our ability to successfully obtain any necessary export license(s) or other approvals.

SiFive is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.