Sr. Engineer, Performance Infrastructure (RISC-V) - Austin, Texas, United States
$100,000 - $500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves building and running the performance infrastructure shared by the RISC-V Software and RISC-V Performance teams, focusing on benchmarking automation, data collection, and workload capture across silicon, FPGA/emulation platforms, and performance models.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain benchmarking automation and CI pipelines that run SPEC and real-world workloads across RISC-V silicon, FPGA/emulation platforms, and performance models.
- Own SimPoint generation and management infrastructure.
- Build performance-data collection into databases, with dashboards and visualization tools.
- Develop workload capture and replay tooling (QEMU- and CRIU-based checkpointing).
- Collaborate with performance and software engineers to understand their flows and remove infrastructure friction.
What you'll need
- Strong Linux systems engineering skills.
- Proficiency in Python and shell scripting.
- Experience with GitLab CI and containerization.
- Experience automating at scale, including job scheduling, artifact management, databases, and dashboarding.
- Curiosity about CPU performance.
Skills: performance infrastructure, benchmarking automation, CI pipelines, RISC-V, workload capture
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 48-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
873
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (873 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 873 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 27 | 5925 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 82 d | 48 d (+34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: performance infrastructure, benchmarking automation, CI pipelines, RISC-V, workload capture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 266 open roles · median 38 d
- Qualcomm · 59 open roles · median 58 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 59 d
- AMD · 37 open roles · median 23 d
- Graphcore · 36 open roles · median 89 d
- Renesas Electronics · 31 open roles · median 31 d
How we counted: 873 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.