Staff Engineer CPU IP Design Engineer (RISC-V)

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Company

hirify.global is a semiconductor foundry providing design, development, and fabrication services, including RISC-V CPUs and AI-enabled processors through its MIPS team.

What you will do

• Lead RTL development for an AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core.
• Drive the microarchitecture and design of critical CPU blocks, including vector processing and custom extensions.
• Design an AI-enabled matrix engine to augment the vector CPU.
• Develop and refine microarchitectural specifications from architectural exploration through detailed design.
• Optimize RTL for power, performance, area, and timing targets.
• Support functional verification and collaborate on physical design validation covering timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with 4–7 years of experience, or PhD with 2–5 years of work experience.
• Hands-on knowledge of pipeline stages in high-performance in-order or out-of-order CPU cores.
• Strong microprocessor architecture knowledge, including instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, reorder buffers, execution units, load/store execution, prefetching, vector datapaths, caches, and memory subsystems.
• Knowledge of cache coherency, memory consistency, logic design, and timing and power implications.
• Experience with SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL, plus simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Role location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Nice to have

• Experience designing RISC-V, ARM, or MIPS CPUs.
• Experience with hardware multithreading, virtualization, SIMD, and vector- or matrix-enabled CPUs.
• Knowledge of high-performance and low-power CPU microarchitecture techniques.
• Experience with Perl or Python scripting.
• Understanding of SoC-level CPU integration and safety and security microarchitecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and multicultural workplace.
• Employment is subject to applicable background checks, medical screenings, and local laws.
• Work includes compliance with environmental, health, safety, and security requirements.