Full-Time

Mechanical Engineer

Posted on 7/15/2025

Rivos

Rivos

201-500 employees

Custom RISC-V server hardware for enterprises

No salary listed

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Mechanical Engineering (2)
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Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Applied Mechanics or Science (Physics).
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in a product development and/or qualification environment, preferably in electronics/semiconductor industry.
Responsibilities
  • Mechanical design at the component, board and chassis levels.
  • Assembly design including high power Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, sockets, heat sinks.
  • Mechanical design of air and liquid cooled heat sinks and exchangers or cold plates.
  • Closely working with board designers to determine dimensions, keep out zones, translate ECAD into MCAD and prepare board layouts.
  • Collaborating with other engineering teams (Reliability, Signal Integrity/Power Integrity, Power, General Hardware) and making necessary changes on mechanical design.
  • Following the Open Compute Project guidelines, understanding the revisions/updates, attending appropriate OCP meetings and applying them to mechanical design of Rivos chassis.
  • Design of cables and bundling through Rivos chassis at various form factors.
  • Running finite element analysis at board and chassis levels to ensure mechanical integrity.
  • Generating and maintaining bill of materials.
  • Working with contract manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers to develop mockups, test samples and high-volume products.
Desired Qualifications
  • Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Passion for working in a startup environment, exploring, learning new techniques and applying them to product design.
  • Experience with electro-mechanical design for rack mounted fixed and modular server or networking equipment.
  • Experience working with contract manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers.
  • Experience with board/printed circuit board ground/power board mechanical design.
  • Experience with cabling/bundling in electronic enclosures.
  • Experience with various fabrication processes including sheet metal, injection molding, soft and hard tooling.
  • Familiarity with Open Compute Project mechanical design guidelines and design of Colo boxes.
  • Experience with air and liquid cooling systems.
  • Experience with tolerance analysis and American Society of Mechanical Engineers Y14.5 dimensional and tolerancing guidelines.
  • Expert computer aided design and product data management user (NX and SolidWorks preferred).
  • Experience with information exchange format and electronic design automation to mechanical computer-aided design transfer process.
  • Ability to work on mock up design and preparing test setups and procedures for mechanical and thermal testing.
  • Experience with design and manufacturing of fixtures for experiments, components for prototypes, etc.
  • Good knowledge/use of Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.
  • Implementing test plans: setting up and conducting tests or experiments with attention to detail.
  • Good troubleshooting skills with mechanical and thermal design and testing.
  • Optional: Familiarity with ANSYS Mechanical.
  • Familiarity with Thermal Design Software such as Ansys IcePak.
  • Familiarity with airflow and/or wind tunnel measurements.

Rivos designs and manufactures custom high-performance server hardware based on the RISC-V open ISA for data centers and enterprise IT. Its products are purpose-built to deliver strong compute performance, energy efficiency, and security for demanding workloads, through hardware tailored to specific tasks rather than off-the-shelf designs. The company differentiates itself by leveraging the flexibility and cost advantages of RISC-V to create bespoke servers that meet enterprise needs, offering close collaboration and support to ensure seamless integration in large-scale infrastructure. Its goal is to serve cloud providers, data centers, and other large IT operators with tailored, dependable server solutions that optimize performance and total cost of ownership.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$250M

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Meta's $2B acquisition in September 2025 validates RISC-V for AI chips.
  • Rivos raised $250M in April 2024 to scale AI inference GPUs.
  • Canonical partnership enables Ubuntu on Rivos RISC-V data centers.

What critics are saying

  • Meta redirects Rivos roadmap to internal AI by 2026, halting enterprise sales.
  • Nvidia's 20-30% H100 price cuts in 2025 lock in CUDA ecosystems.
  • RISC-V fragmentation demands proprietary optimizations, blocking portability.

What makes Rivos unique

  • Rivos builds high-performance RISC-V SoCs with proprietary GPGPU accelerators.
  • Rivos delivers CUDA-compatible software stacks for seamless AI transitions.
  • Rivos taped out 3.1 GHz RISC-V processor for data center efficiency.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

50%

1 year growth

53%

2 year growth

51%
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Oct 3rd, 2025
Meta acquires RISC-V chip startup Rivos – report

Terms of the deal have not been disclosed

FinancialContent
Sep 30th, 2025
Meta Acquires Rivos for AI Chips

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has acquired chip startup Rivos to enhance its AI capabilities and reduce reliance on external suppliers. This move, announced on September 30, 2025, aims to integrate Rivos's RISC-V-based processors and GPUs, accelerating Meta's custom AI chip development. The acquisition reflects a broader trend of tech giants pursuing vertical integration in AI hardware, potentially impacting companies like Nvidia. Rivos was previously seeking funding at a $2 billion valuation.

TS2.tech
Sep 30th, 2025
Meta Acquires Rivos for $2B AI Chips

Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos Inc. for around $2 billion to enhance its AI hardware capabilities and reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs. Rivos, known for its RISC-V–based AI GPU, raised $250 million in April 2024. This acquisition aligns with Meta's strategy to develop in-house AI chips by 2026, aiming to cut AI compute costs. The move is part of a broader trend among tech giants to control AI chip development, challenging Nvidia's market dominance.

BISinfotech
Aug 18th, 2025
Rivos Targets $500M Funding to Rival NVIDIA GPUs

U.S.-based semiconductor startup Rivos is aiming to raise between $400 million and $500 million to develop advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) designed to compete directly with NVIDIA in the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) chip market.

SiliconANGLE Media
Aug 15th, 2025
AI chip startup Rivos reportedly seeking up to $500M in funding

Santa Clara, California-based Rivos is reportedly developing a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference.

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