SoC Fabric Architect
Santa Clara, CA
Engineering – Platform Engineering (HW) /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Join Rivos Inc., a well-funded exciting start-up whose mission is to create industry transforming RISC-V based and accelerated computing platforms with HW/SW co-design. We offer a creative, flexible, and fun-filled environment where your work and innovation is prized and contributes to our mission.
Responsibilities
- You will be working closely with architects, micro-architects, and software, performance, validation, and physical design teams to own or actively participate in:
- Architectural definition and specification of fabrics:
- Working with SoC architects to optimize fabrics for overall system architecture
- Developing, assessing, and refining fabric architectures with appropriate trade-off analysis to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
- Helping produce and review validation plans for functionality and performance
Inter- and intra-chip interconnects
Coherent, non-coherent, and bridging protocols
Requirements
- Knowledge of SoC architectures including caching hierarchy and memory subsystems, with relevant experience
- Understanding of on-chip and off-chip topologies and interconnects with experience in architecture and design relevant subsystems
- Knowledge of and experience with cache-coherent and non-coherent protocols (e.g., directory based implementations to resolve conflicts, deadlocks, etc.)
- Experience with functional and performance simulators: design space exploration, modeling and analysis, knowledge of tools
- Relevant design experience exemplifying architectural/performance/power trade-offs.
Education and Experience
- Ph.D.: 3-5 years experience, or
- Master’s: 5-7 years industry experience, or
- Bachelor’s: 7-10 years industry experience
