Ventana Micro Systems · 2 months ago
Application Engineering and Customer Support
Hybrid Remote, Cupertino, California
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$105K/yr - $260K/yr
8+ years expVentana Micro Systems is a well-funded, early-stage start-up developing high-performance RISC-V CPU cores. They are seeking multiple application support roles to assist in the development of their innovative processors and subsystems, focusing on customer interaction and engineering support.
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)ElectronicsInformation TechnologySemiconductorSoftware
Responsibilities
Support the development of innovative RISC-V processors and subsystems
Interact with customers and provide an engineering interface to FAE teams
Understand customer workloads, debugging, and determining performance bottlenecks
Develop customer-facing documentation, application notes, release notes, user manuals and other collateral
Work independently across geographies with sales and FAE teams
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or related engineering fields
8+ years of software development with C and C++ languages in a Linux in an embedded or server environment
Experience with application engineering and customer support roles – interacting with customers and providing an engineering interface to FAE (Field Applications Engineering) teams
Hands-on experience with customer interaction, understanding customer workloads, debugging, and determining performance bottlenecks
Programming experience with the Linux kernel internals, device drivers for multi-core SoCs, Linux networking and PCIe sub-systems
Experience with the GNU/LLVM tool chain and debuggers like GDB
Hands-on programming and debugging experience with board bring-up and BSP delivery
Knowledge of CPU architecture including CPU cores, caches, and memory sub-systems
Knowledge of hardware and motherboard design and server system features
Experience developing customer facing documentation, application notes, release notes, user manuals and other collateral
Ability to work independently across geographies with sales and FAE teams
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills and good English communications skills, both verbal and writing
Preferred
Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86
Development experience with Virtualization and Hypervisors including KVM and QEMU
Hands-on implementation with writing new PCIe or ethernet drivers in Linux
Porting an existing driver from one architecture to a different one
Linux Kernel crash debug
How to add instrumentation to root cause the issue to a software or hardware bug
Linux Kernel performance optimization
Knowledge of perf, oprofile, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks
Company
Ventana Micro Systems
Ventana delivers high-performance RISC-V CPUs with extensible instruction sets for cloud, data center, 5G, AI, and automotive markets.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$98.25M2025-12-10Acquired
2022-08-15Series Unknown· $55M
2021-09-01Series B· $38M
Leadership Team
Greg Favor
Co-Founder and CTO
Recent News
2026-01-06
2025-12-13
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