Engineering

• Design for Test (DFT) Engineer

  As a DFT Engineer in the Implementation Team, you will develop DFT specifications, plan and implement DFT tool flows to meet industry standard test requirements for HVM including Memory BIST, Logic BIST, boundary scan, and at speed scan test with compression.

  Responsibilities

  • Implement, integrate and verify DFT logic designs at IP level and chip level
  • Provide signoff timing constraints for all DFT modes and collaborate with physical design team to close timing and physical design signoff requirements
  • Generate production quality manufacturing test patterns and assist with bring-up and debug on ATE.

  Minimum qualifications

  • Extensive experience of ASIC design for test including complete silicon life cycle through DFT pattern bring-up on ATE and manufacturing
  • Experience in one or more of the following physical design flows and methodologies: synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), formal verification and power intent (UPF/CPF).
  • Good scripting skills using Tcl, Perl, Python, Makefile and Shell scripts

  Preferred qualifications

  • Experience working with FinFET process nodes
  • Experience and/or knowledge in hierarchical DFT and physical design flows, and IP integration (SRAM, IO, hardened digital IP and analog IP).
  • Experience with ATPG tools/and or production testing

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• Field Application Engineer
  (Software Support)

  At SiFive, you’ll be part of a fun, engaging team and be afforded the opportunity to grow within the company. You will bring fruition the new RISC-V architecture and enable its rapid adoption by implementing new tools, breakthrough design methods and services. We need people who are trail-blazers, aren’t afraid to take a chance, and don’t always “go with the flow”.

  Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Sales and BD teams to identify and leverage IP licensing and design wins opportunities.
  • Present and demonstrate technical details of products to the assigned accounts. Remove technical obstacles and provide a path to increase IP licensing.
  • Provide technical support in pre-sales opportunities as well as ownership of accounts support process in design-in.
  • Provide tool chains / debugger / IDE / bootup / OS expertise for products in early design stages.
  • Create and maintain good relationship with key accounts technical staff.
  • Feedback customer requirements and competition updates to both China & HQ product groups.
  • Support marketing activities as needed in the form of webinars, technical blog posts, trade show exhibits, etc.

  Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, 3+ years’ experience.
  • Experienced with CPU IP based on RISC-V, ARM, MIPS, or others.
  • Experienced with embedded software development tools.
  • Track record of successful customer engagements.
  • Fluent in English, able to work and communicate at a detailed or a high level, as situation requires.
  • Flexible, willing to adapt to changing responsibilities and assignments.

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• Physical Implementation Engineer

  As a Physical Design Engineer in the Implementation Team, you will participate in the tape out of chips to support the SiFive vision of enabling chip design by anyone. When you join our implementation team as a physical design engineer, you will take ownership and contribute as an implementation expert with comprehensive RTL to GDS experience who has taped out multiple ASICs with a wide range of process and technologies.

  Responsibilities

  • Implement and verify ASIC designs of varying size and complexity using suitable front and/or back-end design flows on cutting edge process nodes
  • Interact with and drive various EDA vendors to improve the efficiency and quality of implementations
  • Act as consultant for ASIC implementation queries both internal, and external

  Minimum qualifications

  • Extensive experience of ASIC implementation flow and challenges
  • Experience in logic synthesis, floorplanning, power grid design, clock network synthesis, place & route
  • Timing closure and sign-off experience with high-speed designs
  • Physical & formal verification experience
  • Power/Performance/Area evaluation and optimization
  • Good scripting skills using Tcl, Perl, Python, Makefile and Shell scripts

  Preferred qualifications

  • Experience working with FinFET process nodes
  • Experience with low power design techniques (power gating, voltage/frequency scaling, etc) and clock tree debugging
  • Experience with Synopsys tools

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• Senior Field Application Engineer
  (Senior Hardware Support)

  At SiFive, you’ll be part of a fun, engaging team and be afforded the opportunity to grow within the company. You will bring fruition the new RISC-V architecture and enable its rapid adoption by implementing new tools, breakthrough design methods and services. We need people who are trail-blazers, aren’t afraid to take a chance, and don’t always “go with the flow”.

  Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Sales and BD teams to identify and leverage IP licensing and design wins opportunities.
  • Present and demonstrate technical details of products to the assigned accounts. Remove technical obstacles and provide a path to increase IP licensing.
  • Performance a technical management of the assigned accounts. Provide technical support in pre-sales opportunities as well as ownership of accounts support process in design-in.
  • Provide system design expertise and first pass architectural planning for products in early design stages.
  • Create and maintain good relationship with key accounts technical staff.
  • Feedback customer requirements and competition updates to both China & HQ product groups.
  • Support marketing activities as needed in the form of webinars, technical blog posts, trade show exhibits, etc.

  Qualifications:

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, 5+ years experience.
  • Experienced with CPU IP based on RISC-V, ARM, MIPS, or others.
  • Experienced with SoC Design engineering. Working knowledge of Verilog/VHDL, Verification IP.
  • Track record of successful customer engagements.
  • Fluent in English, able to work and communicate at a detailed or a high level, as situation requires.
  • Flexible, willing to adapt to changing responsibilities and assignments.

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• SoC Project Manager

  At SiFive, you’ll be part of a fun, engaging team and be afforded the opportunity to grow within the company. You will bring fruition the new RISC-V architecture and enable its rapid adoption by implementing new tools, breakthrough design methods and services. We need people who are trail-blazers, aren’t afraid to take a chance, and don’t always “go with the flow”.

  Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning and implementation of SoC project esp. for spec-in project
  • Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
  • Define project tasks and resource requirements
  • Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
  • Assemble and coordinate project staff
  • Manage project budget and resource relocation
  • Coordinate the multiple resources involved in the project and balance with quality/schedule/cost
  • Plan and schedule project timelines and tracking the deliverables with quality control
  • Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs

  Qualifications:

  • BS degree or equivalent practical experience. MS in EE or CS is preferred.
  • 8+years’ experience in ASIC/SoC project development
  • 4+years’ experience in SoC project management
  • Familiar with ARM / RISC CPU or DSP based SoC project
  • Experience in SOC design flow from spec-in to silicon out, including design, logic verification implementation, physical verification and package and testing
  • Mass production experience of SoC projects
  • Good people and communication skills in Mandarin and English
  • Critical thinking and problem solving skills, planning and organizing
  • Team work, strong communication skills and strong responsibility

  Big Plus:

  • Strong sense for trade-off for quality, schedule and cost
  • Rapid and right decision making
  • Conflict and resource management
  • Experience of analog and RF blocks usage and SoC software development

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Sales

• SALES

  At SiFive, you’ll be part of a fun, engaging team and be afforded the opportunity to grow within the company. You will bring fruition the new RISC-V architecture and enable its rapid adoption by implementing new tools, breakthrough design methods and services. We need people who are trail-blazers, aren’t afraid to take a chance, and don’t always “go with the flow”.

  Responsibilities

  • “Get the sale” using various customer sales methods (door-to-door, cold calling, presentations etc)
  • Evaluate customers skills, needs and build productive long and lasting relationships
  • Meet personal and team sales targets
  • Research accounts and generate or follow through sales leads
  • Report and provide feedback to management using financial statistical data
  • Maintain and expand client database within your assigned territory

  Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical Engineering or related major, microelectronics major is preferable
  • At least 2 years working experience in IC industry
  • Experience of IP Sales/FAE/AE is preferable
  • Experience of SoC front-end design is a plus
  • Experience of embedded software development is a plus
  • Knowledge of embedded processor (RISC-V, ARM, MIPS, etc) is a plus
  • Fluency in written English
  • Fluency in oral English is a plus