Functional Safety Architect

About SiFive

As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.

At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are.

Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time. 

Are you ready?

To learn more about SiFive’s phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA’s prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to an overall FuSa/RAS solution portfolio that is seamless, coherent, and extensible while extending it across a widely configurable IP and unique development environment. 

• Performing the required analysis and derive the set of requirements to enable SiFive IP Portfolio to detect failures, report them and enable smarter reactions

• Collaborating with the Engineering teams to ensure optimal implementation of the defined solutions within individual IPs and across multiple connected IPs. 

• Working closely with the product teams to support customers and help identifying next product intercepts and requirements for Functional Safety and RAS

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in IP developing and specifically in Functional Safety and/or RAS

• Experience with SoC and IP design flow from requirement definition, design and verification.

• Familiarity with CPU architectures and pipelines, interconnect architectures

• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, experience in AI/ML is preferred 

• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a worldwide team.

• Master's or PhD in a related technical field, e.g. computer science, electronic/computer engineering, etc.

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

United States of America

Any offer of employment for this position is also contingent on the Company verifying that you are a authorized for access to export-controlled technology under applicable export control laws or, if you are not already authorized, our ability to successfully obtain any necessary export license(s) or other approvals.

SiFive is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.