Senior Emulation Engineer

Ventana is building the highest-performance RISC-V CPUs on the planet—designed for data center, AI, and edge workloads, with real silicon, not slideware.

Our second-generation Veyron core (V2) is on track to ship early next year, featuring an aggressive wide-issue pipeline and built in 4nm. Development on Veyron V3 is ramping now, with even greater performance and deep AI platform integration. This is your opportunity to work alongside engineers who built iconic processors like the AMD K6 and the first 64‑bit ARM server processor (X‑Gene at Applied Micro)—bringing decades of CPU innovation to a clean‑slate, open‑standards future.

Ventana is looking to fill multiple technical Senior Engineer positions to continue the development of its innovative RISC‑V processors and subsystems. We seek experienced professionals who can successfully work cross‑functionally between all pre‑silicon disciplines (arch/uarch, design, DV, software, performance, emulation/prototyping), with the focus on the development, debugging, and maintenance of complex system‑level hybrid execution environments to enable pre‑silicon bring‑up of system software and performance benchmarking workloads.

• 8+ years industry experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s or PhD degree in a related engineering field
• Ability to take initiative, work independently and across geographies
• Strong domain knowledge of computer architecture

• Hands‑on experience with commercial emulation (Cadence Palladium, Mentor Veloce) and/or prototyping (Cadence Protium, HAPS) solutions: transactor development, virtual prototyping, implementation/enablement of flows for advanced verification techniques (assertions, coverage, UPF)
• Good understanding of modern System Verilog for design and verification
• Strong software development experience in compiled (C/C++) and interpreted (Python, Tcl) languages
• Strong hardware/software co‑debug skills
• Exposure to isolating and reproducing silicon bugs in emulation
• Hands‑on knowledge of firmware, OS (Linux, RTOS) and hypervisor (Xen, KVM) open source software stacks for embedded and server applications
• Industry experience with CPU architectures (RISC‑V, x86, armv8), coherent communication protocols and standard IO interfaces
• Crisp and clear communication skills

$105,000 TO $260,000 per year

Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

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