Senior Engineer, RTL Design, AI Hardware

The role

You will build the silicon behind Tenstorrent's custom AI platform. You will implement and optimize micro-architectures, improve performance and power efficiency, and collaborate across hardware teams.

What you will do

• Implement and refine micro-architectural features for Tenstorrent's AI hardware IP
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and suggest improvements for power, area, and frequency
• Collaborate across RTL, DV, performance, and physical design to evaluate design trade-offs
• Debug RTL issues in simulation and post-silicon environments
• Contribute to improving internal tools and flows

Required qualifications

• Strong foundation in digital design and micro-architecture
• Hands-on experience with RTL development, debugging, and performance analysis workflows
• Experience with clock/reset, power, boot, and debug logic
• Comfortable writing Verilog or SystemVerilog
• Able to interpret synthesis and timing results
• Able to take ownership of design tasks
• Able to work through ambiguous problems
• Able to collaborate effectively with adjacent hardware teams

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package

Before you apply

• Contingent upon being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology
• Offer may be contingent on citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency

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.