Senior Principal Engineer AI/ML

Location: Santa Clara, United States; onsite role

Salary: $171,000–$325,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a semiconductor foundry providing chip design, development, and fabrication services through a global manufacturing footprint.

What you will do

• Define, lead, and own RTL development for an AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core.
• Drive microarchitecture and design critical CPU blocks, including vector processing and custom extensions.
• Design an AI-enabled matrix engine to augment the vector CPU.
• Explore high-performance strategies with the CPU modeling team and develop specifications from architectural exploration through detailed microarchitecture.
• Refine RTL designs against power, performance, area, and timing goals.
• Support functional verification and collaborate on physical design validation covering timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience or PhD with 5+ years of work experience.
• Hands-on knowledge of in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU pipeline stages.
• Expertise in microprocessor architecture, including areas such as instruction processing, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, execution units, caches, memory subsystems, or vector datapaths.
• Knowledge of cache coherency, memory consistency, logic design, and timing and power implications.
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL, plus experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Ability to collaborate with multifunctional engineering teams on CPU and physical design implementation.

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 low-power microarchitecture, CPU integration at the SoC level, and safety and security microarchitecture.
• Experience with Perl or Python scripting.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a semiconductor technology company.
• Work in a multifunctional engineering environment spanning CPU modeling, verification, and physical design.
• Commitment to environmental, health, safety, and security requirements.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation available during the employment process.