Job Description

Ventana is building the highest-performance RISC-V CPUs on the planet—designed for data center, AI, and edge workloads, with real silicon, not slideware.Our second-generation Veyron core (V2) is on track to ship early next year, featuring an aggressive wide-issue pipeline and built in 4nm. Development on Veyron V3 is ramping now, with even greater performance and deep AI platform integration. This is your opportunity to work alongside engineers who built iconic processors like the AMD K6 and the first 64-bit ARM server processor (X-Gene at AppliedMicro)—bringing decades of CPU innovation to a clean-slate, open-standards future. You can check us out here: Ventana Micro - YouTubeCPU/SOC Power Analysis & Optimization Engineer:

For this role, the candidate must have strong analytical skills and background in power, micro-architecture and scripting to support the following activities on CPU, Compute Subsystem, and SOC designs:

Characterization and development of dynamic power estimation and management features
Develop energy models for early power estimation, what-if analysis and power targets
Support RTL and gate-level power rollup and analysis
Analyze various workloads to identify power reduction opportunities
Evaluate, evangelize, and implement power optimizations in both RTL and gates
Identify best power sign-off tests to improve power analysis coverage
Develop flows & heuristics to accelerate power triage on large power data sets
Present power results on a regular basis

Qualifications Required:

8+ years industry experience with high performance CPU or GPU, memory subsystem, or related system-level designs
Bachelors or Masters degree in related engineering field
Strong domain knowledge of computer architecture
Knowledge of low power ASIC design and implementation techniques
Ability to work independently and across geographies
Excellent communication skills, self-motivated and well organized

Skills Desired:

Verilog/SystemVerilog development experience
Industry experience with CPU microarchitecture (e.g. x86, ARM, SPARC, MIPS, RISC-V, POWER) and/or coherent caching systems
Experience with a broad range of high frequency design considerations (timing, multiple clock domains, clock distribution) including power.
Experience with typical front-end tools including: Verilog simulators, waveform viewers, and linting tools, as well as logic synthesis and place and route
Experience in compiled and/or interpreted (Python, perl) languages
Experience in product level power budgeting and projection
Experience in Joules, PowerArtist, PTPX or similar power analysis tools
Experience in data mining applications to power modeling & triage
Experience in power use-case definition and analysis
Experience in post-silicon power correlation is a plus
Experience in power management techniques is a plus

BASE SALARY RANGE

$105,000 TO $260,000 per year

EEOE

Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.COVID-19

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About Ventana Micro Systems

Ventana is the RISC-V Performance leader, delivering platforms, chips, and IP for groundbreaking solutions across data center, automotive, client, and AI markets. Our core team includes the pioneers behind the first 64-bit Arm server processor, the X-Gene by Applied Micro. With this proven expertise, we are redefining high-performance computing with the RISC-V architecture.

Ventana’s award-winning culture has been celebrated by Forbes as the #11 Startup Employer in 2024 and by Data Center World as the Most Influential Founding Team in 2023.

Join our dynamic team shaping the future of computing by visiting: www.ventanamicro.com/careers

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Industry

Hardware & Semiconductors

Company Size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

Cupertino, CA

Year Founded

2018

Website

ventanamicro.com

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