Senior Customer Release Engineer

About SiFive

As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.

At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are.  

Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions.  Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time. 

Are you ready?  

To learn more about SiFive’s phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA’s prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages.

Job Description:

Role Overview:

As a Senior Customer Release Engineer, you will report to the Release Management team under Platform Execution and Operation. You will be assigned to execution programs and will be responsible for ensuring SiFive IP customer deliverables are integrated, validated, and delivered on time with high quality. Success will be measured based on on-time releases, defect escape rate, release quality, and automation improvements. This is a cross-functional coordination and technical debugging role, not a primary RTL or verification development role. You will work with architects, program managers, engineering, and sales support teams to release and deliver SiFive products on schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own release readiness and delivery for customer IP drops. 

• Manage integration/configuration issues across Core and UnCore content. 

• Generate release collateral and perform quality checks. 

• Drive schedule/risk tracking with PMs and engineering leads.

• Collaborate with sales and support teams to ensure customer requirements are met.

Technical Requirements

Must-haves:

• Strong Python.

• Experience with release/build/productization workflows. 

• Familiarity with structured metadata/config formats such as JSON, YAML, and ideally IP-XACT. 

• Understanding of hardware/IP delivery lifecycle.

• Experience with embedded programming in Assembly and C/C++, along with build tools such as CMake and Make.

Education & Experience

Required Qualifications:

• BE/ME/MTech/MS in ECE, EE, or Computer Science.

• 4+ years of relevant experience.

• Solid understanding of SoC design and verification flows at a working level. 

• Strong problem-solving/debugging skills. 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 

• Experience with Linux, Git, Jira, and Confluence. 

• Self-starter / learning agility. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• FPGA prototyping, emulation, and simulation depth. 

• CPU architecture and embedded bring-up depth. 

• Verilog/System Verilog.

• Scala, Haskell .

• UVM, assertions, coverage, power estimation, Spy Glass.

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

Any offer of employment for this position is also contingent on the Company verifying that you are a authorized for access to export-controlled technology under applicable export control laws or, if you are not already authorized, our ability to successfully obtain any necessary export license(s) or other approvals.

SiFive is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.