Junior System Architecture Engineer

StarFive is a leading provider of RISCV processors, platforms and solutions. StarFive products are widely used in smart home appliances, smart monitoring, industrial robots, traffic management, intelligent logistics, wearable devices, solid state storage, network communications and edge computing, etc.

We are intensively designing next generation high performance RISC-V CPU and RISC-V-based SoC chips. Talents who are passionate in research and development for future chips are welcomed to join us. Being part of this vibrant team, you can produce world class successful commercial chips supported by efficient software stacks.

• Maintain the automation of development environment (CI testing) and integrate the performance modelling and simulation platform and framework for micro-architecture explorations
• Investigate the current state of the art of CPUs and system on chip architecture including cache, on-chip interconnect, and memory hierarchy
• Implement simulation models for performance modelling of System-on-Chip components like caches, interconnect, and memory controllers
• Maintain, porting and cross-compile the benchmarks and master the sampling and trace-based simulation techniques
• Join the activity of micro-architectural exploration and data analysis for different benchmarks a
• Join the activity of architecture optimization for next generation of processor
• Develop automation strategies to maintain our core performance simulation models with strict quality gating and high-quality data reporting

• BS/MS with course work in Computer Architecture/Systems Engineering/Software Development
• Familiarity with software development and integration; usage of tools like JIRA, GIT, GERRIT, JENKINS
• Ability to setup benchmark suite (eg: Geekbench, SPEC), profile and gather performance results
• Having basic knowledge of modern processor architecture and cross-compilation environment (e.g. embedded system development)
• Able to program with assembly languages to enable benchmark porting and debugging
• Competent in C/C++ and scripting languages (Perl/Python)
• Skillful on working in Linux server environment
• Fresh Graduates are welcome
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and oral; good team player
• Curiosity to learn and execute at fast pace; communicate effectively with mentors and other team members

StarFive – Leading the revolution of RISC-V technology and ecosystem. StarFive was founded in August 2018, with its headquarter located in Shanghai with various offices in Beijing, Chengdu, Shunde of Guangdong, Shenzhen, Taiwan and Silicon Valley. StarFive started Southeast Asia expansion in early 2021 with successful launch of Malaysia Design Centre and StarFive Singapore office. To date, StarFive employed 200+ employees globally with most of its employees currently based in Shanghai, Beijing & Chengdu. StarFive has an experienced international management team in R&D and semiconductor operations. StarFive is the leader of RISC-V technology and ecosystem development in China with complete and silicon proven portfolio of RISC-V CPU IP series and platform-based software and hardware full stack chip solution. StarFive products are widely used in smart home appliances, smart monitoring, industrial robots, traffic management, intelligent logistics, wearable devices, solid state storage, network communications and edge computing, etc. StarFive Singapore will be focusing on analog and mix signal design platform, software and hardware architecture design, algorithm and protocol development, and end-to-end solutions for international market.