Staff 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

• Own a coherent technical area or subsystem
• Implement and refine micro-architectural features
• Influence architecture and interfaces
• Guide related implementation work across multiple contributors or teams
• Lead complex PPA trade-offs
• Drive alignment across RTL, DV, performance, physical design, software, and architecture
• Identify ambiguous or novel failure modes and coordinate root-cause analysis
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineers
• Establish reusable design practices and review standards
• Represent the team in architecture and cross-functional reviews

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated depth in digital design and micro-architecture
• Ability to make architectural decisions and solve novel problems with broad downstream impact
• Hands-on expertise and ownership of complex designs through RTL, verification, implementation, and silicon or post-silicon debug where applicable
• Comfortable writing Verilog or SystemVerilog
• Ability to interpret synthesis and timing results
• Track record of delivering complex ASIC or accelerator hardware
• Experience in providing technical direction, mentoring engineers and raising design quality across the team

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

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.