Senior Customer Release Engineer

Job Title

Senior Customer Release Engineer

Role Summary

Lead cross-functional execution of customer IP releases within the Release Management team. Ensure customer deliverables are integrated, validated, and shipped on schedule with high quality.

This is a coordination and technical debugging role working with architects, program managers, engineering, and sales/support teams to drive on-time releases and reduce defect escapes.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The posting requests 4+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities focus on release readiness, integration, validation, and delivery of customer IP drops.

• Own release readiness and delivery for customer IP drops.
• Manage integration and configuration issues across core and uncore content.
• Generate release collateral and perform quality checks and validation.
• Track schedules, identify risks, and coordinate mitigation with PMs and engineering leads.
• Perform technical debugging to resolve delivery blockers.
• Collaborate with sales and support to ensure customer requirements are satisfied.

Requirements

Key must-have technical skills and tools for the role.

• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience with release, build, and productization workflows.
• Familiarity with structured metadata/config formats such as JSON and YAML; IP-XACT experience preferred.
• Understanding of the hardware/IP delivery lifecycle and SoC design/verification flows at a working level.
• Embedded programming experience in Assembly and C/C++; familiarity with CMake and Make.
• Experience with Linux, Git, Jira, and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills; self-starter mentality.

Nice-to-have:

• FPGA prototyping, emulation, and simulation experience.
• CPU architecture, embedded bring-up depth, or experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Familiarity with UVM, assertions, coverage, power estimation, SpyGlass, or functional languages such as Scala or Haskell.

Education Requirements

BE / ME / MTech / MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Electrical Engineering (EE), or Computer Science.

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.