Senior/Staff Design Engineer (RISC-V)

Location: Santa Clara, United States

Salary: $69,000–$202,000 per year; exact salary depends on qualifications, experience, and location.

Company

hirify.global is a semiconductor foundry providing chip design, development, and fabrication services, including RISC-V CPU IP and AI-enabled processors.

What you will do

• Drive the microarchitecture and RTL design of critical blocks for an AI-enabled RISC-V CPU core.
• Design RISC-V vector CPU functionality, custom extensions, and an AI-enabled matrix engine.
• Explore high-performance CPU strategies with the modeling team.
• Develop microarchitecture specifications from early architectural exploration through detailed design.
• Refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, timing, reliability, testability, and security goals.
• Support functional verification and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on physical design validation.

Requirements

• Knowledge of pipeline stages in in-order or out-of-order high-performance CPU cores.
• Knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including areas such as instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, execution units, load/store execution, prefetching, vector datapaths, caches, and memory subsystems.
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog, Verilog, and/or VHDL.
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Knowledge of logic design principles and their timing and power implications.
• Bachelor's degree with 3–7 years of experience or Master's degree with 2–5 years of experience.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a semiconductor technology company.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and workplace diversity.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the employment process upon request.
• Employment is subject to applicable pre-employment conditions and laws.