RISC-V Soft CPU Design Engineer
📌San Jose, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
💰 128900
Job Description:
For decades, Altera has been at the forefront of programmable logic technology. Our commitment to innovation has empowered countless customers to create groundbreaking solutions that have transformed industries.
Join us in our journey to becoming the #1 FPGA company!
We are hiring talented engineer for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance & Altera FPGA devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with CPU architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU Architect team.
- Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.
- RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.
- Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.
- Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
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Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability .
$128,900 - $186,650 USD
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering (or related experience).
- Microprocessor architecture including experience in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems
- Verilog and/or VHDL
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
- Logic design principles along with timing and FPGA resource implications
- High performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
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Scripting language (e.g., Perl or Python)
Regular
Shift
Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location:
San Jose
Additional Locations:
Posting Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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