SiFive
A Staff Physical Design Engineer at SiFive owns the physical implementation of critical cache structures and SRAM subsystems from RTL to GDSII, delivering high-performance, dense, and power-efficient designs. This role bridges architecture, RTL, and implementation teams to drive co-design optimizations that impact speed, area, and efficiency across product lines. Engineers in this position manage synthesis, place-and-route, signoff, and aggressive PPA optimization for memory-heavy blocks.
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
Company Size
501-1000 employees
Founded
2015
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.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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