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DPA Performance Modeling - Intern

Rivos
Santa Clara, United StatesinternshipVerifiedPosted 13 Oct 2025

About the role

Job description
The Rivos DPA Performance team is responsible for defining  performance features for the best-in-class RISCV based systems. An internship position is available to those that seek to grow their skills and work on the next generation of Parallel Programmable Accelerators.

Responsibilities

  • As a Performance Modeling intern, you will get to work on a project that will involve some combination of the following:

  • Microarchitecture exploration, research, and experimentation
  • Correlation between the RTL and performance models, RTL performance debug
  • Workload analysis and software optimization involving compilers, libraries, numerics, and other software
  • Development of data analysis, visualization, and debug tools, as well as the development of test benches

Requirements

  • Architecture and microarchitecture knowledge on CPUs
  • Strong C/C++ programming and debugging skills
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl, Python
  • Experience with performance modeling simulators is a plus
  • Understanding of performance benchmarks and workloads
  • Knowledge of SystemVerilog and RTL waveform debugging tools will be a bonus
  • Excellent skills in problem-solving, written and verbal communication
  • Highly self-motivated
  • Ability to work well in a team and be productive under aggressive schedules
Education and Experience
Current EE/CS/CE PhD, Master’s Degree, or Bachelor’s Degree student with a background in computer architecture

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