Senior Engineer, Architecture & Performance Research Engineer for Data Center and Agentic AI CPU

Location: Daily onsite presence at the San Jose office, United States

Base pay: $138,000–$206,000 USD per year, plus incentive opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops technology solutions for smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and other computing applications.

What you will do

• Research next-generation RISC-V CPU microarchitectures and performance for data center and agentic AI workloads.
• Develop architectural simulations and performance models, analyzing IPC, CPI stacks, latency, throughput, and workload behavior.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities across CPU front-end, mid-end, and back-end domains.
• Own a microarchitectural area from idea proposal through implementation, RTL collaboration, and silicon validation.
• Develop scripts and tools to automate performance analysis and architectural exploration.
• Contribute to patents and technical publications based on novel CPU architecture research.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Architecture, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of experience, or a PhD in a related field.
• At least 1 year of experience in CPU microarchitecture or performance engineering.
• Strong knowledge of out-of-order execution, branch prediction, pipelines, speculation, and cache and memory systems.
• Hands-on experience with architectural simulators such as gem5.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and Python.
• Ability to work onsite daily at the San Jose office.

Nice to have

• Experience with RISC-V, ARM, or x86 CPU cores, or GPU/NPU vector unit design.
• Experience with or interest in AI-driven or agentic design workflows.
• Understanding of agentic AI workload execution patterns and characteristics.
• Experience with PPA trade-off analysis, CPU tape-out, silicon validation, patents, or technical publications.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and diverse work environment with an emphasis on collaboration, curiosity, resilience, and innovation.
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
• 4+ weeks of paid time off annually, plus holidays and sick leave.
• Family support benefits, including fertility and adoption assistance.
• Emotional wellness support, onsite café and gym, virtual fitness classes, and a flexible work environment.