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Ventana Micro Systems · 3 months ago

Compiler Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$105K/yr - $225K/yr
date12+ years exp

Ventana Micro Systems is at the forefront of the semiconductor industry, focusing on RISC-V and Chiplet Architecture. They are seeking a Compiler Engineer to contribute to the development and optimization of CPU cores for various computing environments.

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Qualification

C/C++ developmentCompiler theoryGCCLLVMLinux performance optimizationCPU architecture knowledgeJIT compiler developmentMulti-core environmentOpen-source Linux knowledgeEnglish communicationProblem-solving skills

Required

12+ years of software development and debugging with C/C++
Strong background in compiler theory, algorithms, and optimization techniques
Hands-on development and performance optimization experience with GCC and LLVM compilers, debuggers like GDB, libraries like glibc, binutils and maintenance/upstream contribution of these respective tool chains
Hands-on experience analyzing, running, profiling, and performance optimization of benchmarks like Dhrystone, Coremark, LMBench, STREAM, SPECCPU2017, SPECjbb2015, EEMBC and more in a Linux environment
Hands on experience running, profiling, analyzing system bottlenecks and performance optimization of cloud workloads like Memcached, NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, HBase etc. and associated customer workloads and benchmarks in a Linux environment
Linux application and kernel performance optimization - knowledge of perf, oprofile, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks
Experience in competitive benchmarking of workloads across Intel, AMD and ARM64 platforms
Ability to work independently and across geographies with hardware, software, SQA and product management teams
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills and good English communications skills, both verbal and writing
Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related engineering fields

Preferred

Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86. RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus
Experience in JIT compiler development
Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment
Knowledge of open-source Linux, git repository maintenance and source code management

Company

Ventana Micro Systems

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Ventana delivers high-performance RISC-V CPUs with extensible instruction sets for cloud, data center, 5G, AI, and automotive markets.
dateFounded in 2018
location
Cupertino, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
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https://www.ventanamicro.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2023 (5)
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Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$98.25M
2025-12-10Acquired
2022-08-15Series Unknown· $55M
2021-09-01Series B· $38M

Leadership Team

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Greg Favor
Co-Founder and CTO
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