Senior Software Engineer, Debug and Profiling Tools

​The Role At SiFive we are obsessed with providing a first class out of box experience for users debugging and profiling their software running on SiFive RISC-V processors. We do this by developing both command line tools and an Eclipse based IDE that are optimized for productivity and usability with full flexibility of running the software on real hardware, FPGA, SystemC simulator or QEMU emulator. We are looking for a solid experienced Developer Tools team member with a proven experience in developing low-level debugging, instruction tracing, SoC monitoring and performance profiling tools. In this position you will own and enhance existing tools like OpenOCD, GDB, LLDB and SiFive TraceDecoder to add support for new hardware and software features, as well as develop new debug and profiling tools. Job Responsibilities: - Improve, build and release OpenOCD, GDB, LLDB and SiFive TraceDecoder - Work and synchronize with upstream community on OpenOCD, GDB and LLDB - Engage with architecture, hardware engineering and other software engineering teams to review and refine new features - Apply best practices for software development life cycle, including code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations - Assist in developing new and innovative debug and performance tuning tools for SiFive processors - Work directly with SiFive customers, when needed, to provide awesome customer pre and post-sales support