Staff Engineer AI/ML (CPU Design)

Location: Santa Clara, United States

Salary: $143,000–$275,000 per year

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 microarchitecture and design critical CPU blocks, including vector and matrix processing engines.
• Develop and refine microarchitecture specifications from architectural exploration through detailed design.
• Optimize RTL for power, performance, area, and timing targets.
• Support functional verification, RTL performance verification, and verification strategy development.
• Partner with multidisciplinary engineering teams on physical design, reliability, testability, timing, area, and power validation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with high-performance processors, vector processors, or GPUs.
• Knowledge of datapath design for vector and matrix processing using floating-point and integer data types.
• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including instruction execution, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, reorder buffers, out-of-order execution, caches, and memory subsystems.
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL, plus experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Understanding of logic design principles and their timing and power implications.
• Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience or PhD with 5+ years of work experience.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and multicultural workplace.
• Equal opportunity employment regardless of legally protected characteristics.
• Employment offers are subject to applicable background checks and local laws.
• Reasonable accommodation is available during the employment process.