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We are seeking an experienced Senior CPU Verification Engineer to drive validation ensuring the correctness and efficiency of our advanced CPU designs. In this role, you will leverage innovative tools and methodologies to detect and resolve complex logic bugs, drive verification strategies, and collaborate across teams to optimize the design verification lifecycle. You will play a key part in delivering high-quality CPU Designs through comprehensive verification frameworks.

We are seeking a Senior CPU Architect with expertise in CPU performance simulation, a track record of IPC innovation in architecture or microarchitecture, and knowledge of
VLSI tradeoffs in implementation. You will be coming up with innovative features to meet performance, power, and area (PPA) requirements, demonstrating the value of
your ideas, and working with the design and verification teams to implement your ideas in our product. This is an opportunity to work on challenging projects and play a key role in defining the next generation of high performance CPU architecture.

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We are seeking a CPU Performance Architect with a strong interest in CPU performance simulation and microarchitecture. In this role, you will work closely with design and architecture teams to ensure that performance targets are met and validated.  You will help develop, analyze, and optimize features that meet power and performance.  This is an exciting opportunity to grow your expertise in CPUs while contributing to next-generation CPU products.

AheadComputing is seeking a  Silicon Debug Architect to define and lead the debug and trace architecture  across our silicon programs, spanning CPU IP, SoCs, and chiplet-based  systems. This role is for a senior engineer who understands both how robust  silicon is built and how real silicon fails in the lab.

We are seeking a Physical Design Engineer to drive CPU power, performance, and area (PPA) optimization at advanced technology nodes. You will be responsible for physical implementation, collaborating with RTL, and logic design teams to deliver high-performance, and power-efficient processors.

We are seeking an experienced System Architect to define and drive the architecture of advanced silicon systems. This role focuses on system-level design, IP integration, and architectural specifications, enabling next-generation heterogeneous computing solutions on advanced process technologies.

It is both a specification role and a quantitative one. You will define the system architecture, and you will build and run the models the architecture is decided on — how the product is partitioned across dies, what crosses the die-to-die links, and how memory is provisioned. Partitioning decisions are expensive to reverse and are made on the strength of the analysis behind them

You will own the hardware root of trust for our RISC-V compute silicon end to end — from selecting the root-of-trust architecture, through specifying what the SoC must provide to support it, to defending that architecture in front of the customers who audit it.

This is the security voice in the architecture team. Customers increasingly require an open, attestable root of trust in the compute devices they buy, and the decisions made in this role determine whether our silicon qualifies. The role pairs architectural ownership with direct customer engagement.

​We are seeking a Physical Design Engineer to drive CPU power, performance, and area (PPA) optimization at advanced technology nodes. You will be responsible for physical implementation, collaborating with RTL, and logic design teams to deliver high-performance, and power-efficient processors.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Firmware Validation Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will define and drive the validation strategy for the low-level firmware and software that brings our high-performance RISC-V cores to life. Working at the boundary of hardware and software, you will build test environments and automation that validate firmware correctness, performance, and resilience, targeting pre- and post-silicon platforms. You will collaborate closely with architects, RTL design engineers, and software teams to ensure our cores are thoroughly exercised, debugged, and production ready. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape how a cutting-edge CPU startup builds its firmware validation methodology from the ground up.

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You will build and run the product-level power and thermal models that determine what our silicon can actually deliver inside a real power envelope — not what the peak numbers say.

Working with our Power Modeling Architect, you will combine component-level power data with interconnect, memory, package and thermal inputs into projections the product team commits to.

We are seeking a Formal Verification Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will leverage advanced formal verification techniques to ensure the correctness and performance of high-end RISC-V cores. You will collaborate closely with architects and RTL engineers, employing cutting-edge formal tools and methodologies to build innovative verification solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the development of high-quality CPU designs and optimize the CPU verification process through rigorous formal analysis and bug detection methods.

We are seeking a CPU Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing high-performance execution units in CPU, optimizing for power, performance, and area (PPA). You will work closely with cross-functional teams to refine microarchitecture, develop RTL, and validate designs. This is an opportunity to work on challenging projects and play a key role in defining execution unit architecture for next-generation CPU designs.

We are seeking a SoC Design Verification Lead to own the end-to-end functional and performance validation of our chiplet-based SoC platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for developing and executing the verification strategy across CPU subsystems, coherent interconnect, memory interfaces, and system-level integration. The verification work will be conducted on simulation and emulation/FPGA prototyping platforms.

You will define verification plans, build and lead a DV team, and drive silicon readiness by ensuring the design meets all functional, performance, and compliance requirements. You will work closely with architecture, design, firmware, and software teams, as well as external IP vendors.

We are seeking a talented Senior Staff CPU Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing high-performance CPU subsystems, with a focus on achieving optimal power, performance, and area (PPA). You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions, refine microarchitecture, and validate designs. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and make a significant impact on the future of CPU technology in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

We are seeking a Senior CPU Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing high-performance execution units in CPU, optimizing for power, performance, and area (PPA). You will work closely with cross-functional teams to refine microarchitecture, develop RTL, and validate designs. This is an opportunity to work on challenging projects and play a key role in defining execution unit architecture for     next-generation CPU designs.

​We are seeking an experienced Senior Formal Verification Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will leverage advanced formal verification techniques to ensure the correctness and performance of high-end RISC-V cores. You will collaborate closely with architects and RTL engineers, employing cutting-edge formal tools and methodologies to build innovative verification solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the development of high-quality CPU designs and optimize the CPU verification process through rigorous formal analysis and bug detection methods.

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Information Systems Engineer to join our CPU Design team. You will play a critical role in developing, optimizing, and maintaining the networks, systems, and infrastructure that underpin our cutting-edge CPU design projects. You will collaborate closely with design, verification, and implementation teams to ensure our office systems and HPC infrastructure are efficient, secure, and aligned with industry best practices.

Location: Portland, OR — onsite. Candidates must reside in the Portland metro area.

We are seeking an experienced Senior System Architect to define and drive the architecture of advanced silicon systems. This role focuses on system-level design, IP integration, and architectural specifications, enabling next-generation heterogeneous computing solutions on advanced process technologies.

Own and define the platform-level power management architecture for a high-performance RISC-V CPU from early definition through silicon. Requires prior hands-on experience with ARM-based CPU power management architecture. Drive scalable, robust power state strategies across performance states, idle states, and system-level operating modes.