Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Deep Technical Ownership

Area of expertise: Bring deep, hands-on expertise in at least one area of systems software and apply it directly to customer and AHC workloads.

Workload analysis and tuning: Profile, analyze and tune real-world workloads (e.g., gaming, video, audio, low-latency streaming, dynamic translation). Dive into C/C++, assembly, drivers and hardware interfaces to find and fix bottlenecks.

Benchmarking infrastructure: Build clean, reproducible performance environments and automated test harnesses for true apples-to-apples comparisons between execution environments (e.g., x86 vs. RISC-V, native vs. translated runtimes).

Performance characterization: Measure and characterize hardware performance on real workloads, and feed findings back to architecture and software teams.

Customer Enablement

Technical interface: Serve as a trusted technical point person for sales teams, supporting AHC's sales initiatives to break down barriers to adoption that may arise from a perceived (or real) lack of pre-existing software stacks. Also serve as a trusted technical point person for vendor partners and open-source communities.

Project completion: Work side by side with customer teams to port, integrate and tune their software. Diagnose integration bugs and staffing roadblocks, resolve escalations, and land high-stakes projects on time.

Technical communication: Run brown bag sessions, present architecture walk-throughs, and document performance findings for customers, partners and AHC leadership.

Internal Initiatives

Greenfield initiatives: Lead initiatives that incubate internal tools, platforms or workflows that speed up AHC's architecture, software and validation teams, from idea through adoption.

Leading without authority: Drive technical consensus and get work done across hardware, compiler, runtime and application teams without direct reporting lines, including in areas where you are not the domain expert.

Influence and best practices: Identify opportunities for, and promote, better engineering practices across C/C++ and low-level software projects while staying mindful of existing deadlines (e.g., refactoring legacy codebases, unit testing, API stability).

Process and efficiency: Identify workflow bottlenecks, streamline development and release processes, build developer utilities, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve iteration speed.

Qualifications & Skills

Required

Senior experience: 12+ years of software engineering in low-level systems programming, runtime environments, OS internals or performance-critical applications.

Core languages: Mastery of C and C++, with strong Python (or similar) for automation and tool development.

Systems fundamentals: Low-level systems APIs on Linux and/or Windows: memory management, thread synchronization, hardware acceleration interfaces, dynamic library loading.

Performance tuning: Track record of building automated test harnesses, benchmarks and profiling infrastructure to evaluate system efficiency and throughput.

Customer facing: Hands-on experience working directly with customer engineering teams to debug live issues, manage escalations and deliver joint milestones.

Leadership without authority: Proven ability to anchor cross-team initiatives, lead engineers who don't report to you, and establish engineering standards.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred

Gaming, video or audio software experience , for example:

Media frameworks: FFmpeg, GStreamer, DirectShow, Media Foundation

Audio stacks: WASAPI, ALSA, Core Audio

Graphics and games: DirectX, Vulkan, game engines, graphics framebuffers

Translation and embedded: Experience with dynamic translation engines, emulation or embedded systems.

Tooling: Profiling tools (e.g., perf, VTune, custom tracing harnesses) and CI/CD frameworks (e.g., Jenkins, Concourse, GitHub Actions).

Runtimes: C# / .NET runtimes, virtual machines (JVM, V8, etc.) or cross-language native wrappers.

Why You'd Want to Join

Shape a new platform: Help customers and partners adopt AHC's RISC-V technology by building the software paths that make it real for their workloads.

Broad, visible impact: Your work spans customer engagements, hardware performance characterization and internal tooling, and is seen by customers, partners and AHC leadership.

Greenfield ownership: Take internal initiatives from idea through adoption and set the engineering practices a growing group will build on.

Influence by expertise: Lead through technical credibility across hardware, compiler, runtime and application teams, and help shape the group's hiring.

What We Offer

Lead impactful architecture decisions shaping next-generation heterogeneous computing

Competitive compensation & benefits package

Collaboration with talented engineers passionate about cutting-edge CPU technologies.

Opportunities for professional growth in an innovative, fast-paced environment

A flexible and inclusive work culture