Performance Benchmarking and Infrastructure Engineer to Senior Engineer

Job Title

Performance Benchmarking and Infrastructure Engineer to Senior Engineer

Role Summary

Work on benchmarking, performance analysis, and infrastructure for SiFive boards, competitor platforms, and customer systems with a focus on embedded and FPGA-based cores. Collaborate across hardware, software, and customer teams to identify performance gaps and build repeatable workflows and monitoring systems.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The job title indicates a Senior Engineer; no explicit years-of-experience requirement is provided.

Responsibilities

Primary duties include benchmarking, analysis, and automation to support product performance validation and comparison.

• Enable and benchmark SiFive boards and competitor boards.
• Perform system-level benchmarking and root-cause performance analysis (software and hardware).
• Support customer benchmarking and cross-team customer support.
• Design and build performance and benchmarking infrastructure and workflows.
• Develop and maintain regression systems for FPGA-based core performance monitoring.
• Analyze competitor microarchitectures relevant to performance differences.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for the role.

• Experience with board enabling and system benchmarking, especially on embedded systems and Linux.
• Experience in performance analysis and identifying SW/HW root causes.
• Experience building workflow automation and benchmarking infrastructure.
• Proficient in C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python.
• Good interpersonal and cross-functional communication skills.
• Nice to have: experience with data visualization and databases.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: SiFive

Headquarters: San Mateo, California, United States

SiFive is a pioneering company in the RISC-V ecosystem, focused on transforming the future of computing by delivering high-performance, data-intensive RISC-V solutions. Their compute platforms empower leading technology firms to innovate across various markets, including AI, machine learning, and automotive sectors. SiFive is recognized for its commitment to ongoing innovation and fostering collaboration among talented teams, impacting lives by enabling advanced chip design.