Meet Steven, Head of ASIC Verification
SiPearl
Design & Engineering Office, Electronics / Telecommunications, Specialised Engineering
Maisons-Laffitte, Bologna, Castelldefels, Duisbourg, Grenoble, Sophia-Antipolis
Tech team
50% of our engineers work in Hardware teams, while the other half focuses on the Software side.
We value diversity and have a strong European identity, having design centers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Our engineers come from multiple cultures and backgrounds.
Part of the prestigious La French Tech 20 government support program, SiPearl is hiring engineers from junior to very senior level,. This mix of ages and expertise creates a fertile environment for sharing experiences and transferring knowledge.
Employee breakdown
Software & Hardware Verification
70%
Software & Hardware Design
15%
Implementation
5%
Linux
5%
HPC Benchmark
5%
In figures
160
engineers
Technologies and tools
C++
100%C
100%GitHub
100%ARM
100%UVM
100%SystemVerilogVerification
100%
Backend
Devops
Project Management
arm® Neoverse cores⚙️
SiPearl works closely with arm®.
The arm® software ecosystem, well developed across the industry, is core for SiPearl's success. Our teams use its latest technologies to design our high-performance, low-power microprocessors.
At the heart of SiPearl's success is the arm® software ecosystem, which is extremely powerful throughout the industry.
SiPearl reference systems ⚙️
SiPearl designs its'-own reference servers for multiple uses: as a reference for customer servers designs, as a software development platform, as a bring-up platform for our microprocessors, and, of course, for customers to test the performance of our solutions.
These systems are key for validation of both our hardware and software development.
TSMC ⚙️
SiPearl works with market-leading suppliers such as the global No1 independent foundry, the Taïwanese TSMC, for its advanced manufacturing process and innovative packaging solutions.
Organization and methodologies
Fabless, SiPearl focuses on the design of high-performance, low-power microprocessors, initially dedicated to supercomputing and artificial intelligence inference.
After working closely with our customers to define their needs, we design our products and prepare them for production with our back-end partners, before handing them over to our manufacturer.
To design our microprocessors, we use Arm Neoverse technologies. We work with leading IP providers for high-speed interface, memory interface, and other market leading technologies.
The Siemens EDA Veloce Strato emulation platform we use is one of the most advanced in Europe.
Currently assigned to TSMC, our production will be on advanced technology sub 6 nm (less than 1/10,000 of the diameter of a human hair).
Projects and tech challenges
Rhea1
Rhea1
SiPearl is the only European company building a worldclass microprocessor, targeting firs supercomputing, AI-inference, later datacenter workloads.
To meet all the requirements for supercomputing and AI inference workloads with best-in-classe energy-efficiency, Rhea1, our first generation microprocessor, will integrate:
- 80 arm® Neoverse V1 cores with 2 Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) units of 256 bits per core,
- built-in High Bandwidth Memory with 4 stacks of HBM,
- 4 DDR5 interfaces.
First samples of Rhea1 in 2025.
Supercomputing & Ai-inference
Supercomputing & AI inference
SiPearl has announced a design win for the first exascale supercomputer in Europe, Jupiter. The European supercomputers are used in modelling weather and climate, articifial intelligence, medical research (drug discovery and virus prevention for exemple), energy management (renewable energy in particular) and scientific research.
Rhea1 microprocessor is perfectly suited to traditional supercomputing workloads - its initial target market - and also to AI inference workloads. Thanks to the generous memory capacity and high bandwidth of in-package HBM, it will deliver extraordinary performance and energy-efficiency with an unrivalled byte-per-flop ratio.
Recruitment process
✔️Discovery interview with one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists (45 min).
✔️ AssessFirst test - no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to see beyond your resume (45 min).
✔️ 2 technical interviews (1 h each).
✔️ Interview with one HRBP in order to answer to your last questions (30 to 45 min).