Platform Software Test Engineer

Staff/Senior Staff/Principal Software Quality Assurance 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 AppliedMicro)—bringing decades of CPU innovation to a clean-slate, open-standards future.

Locations: Pune, Bangalore, San Francisco Bay Area

Position: Full time with immediate start

Skills and Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or related engineering fields
• 8+ years of software QA experience with familiarity in C/C++, Python or Perl
• Hand-on experience in building test plans, running functional tests, stress tests and preparing test reports for CPU and SoC side interfaces like PCIe, DDR and such.
• Hands-on experience with test automation, scripting, nightly regressions
• Hands-on experience in performance benchmarking, performance tools and fault isolation on multi-core systems.
• Hands-on experience running benchmarks like Dhrystone, Coremark, LMBench, STREAM, SPECCPU2017 and more running in a Linux environment.
• Experience with cloud workloads like Memcached, NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra etc.
• Experience in Linux application, kernel, profiling, analyzing system bottlenecks and performance optimization - knowledge of perf, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks.
• Hands-on experience with the GNU/LLVM tool chain and debuggers like GDB
• Ability to work independently and across geographies with hardware, software development and product management teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills and good English communications skills, both verbal and writing.

Skills and Qualifications Desirable

• Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86. RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus.
• Experience in firmware, bios, kernel, and application layers including hardware accelerators.
• Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment.
• Knowledge of open-source Linux, git repository maintenance and source code management

EEOE 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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