Senior Embedded Engineer, AI IP

The role

You will create reference drivers for AI-IP in a reference system. You will also support customers by optimizing reference drivers into their specific systems.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the driver layer that provides high-performance APIs for Tenstorrent devices.
• Develop and maintain user-mode and kernel-mode drivers for Tenstorrent hardware.
• Define driver interfaces and specifications for the software stack.
• Collaborate with kernel and hardware teams for cross-layer design and PCIe-based device integration.
• Support external integrations through performance engineering, benchmarking, profiling, and optimization.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in device drivers or low-level systems programming.
• Strong proficiency in C and C++.
• Solid understanding of hardware-software interfaces.
• Hands-on experience developing Linux kernel drivers.
• Experience with kernel architecture, debugging, and kernel-space/user-space interactions.
• Familiarity with user-mode and kernel-mode driver models.
• Understanding that Linux kernel driver development differs from bare-metal or RTOS-based driver development.

Nice to have

• PCIe driver development

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package

Before you apply

• Offer is contingent upon being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology.
• Offer may be contingent upon citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency.
• Candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level during the interview process.

About the company

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology. Their team has developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch.