Staff Engineer

Design and development of emulation infrastructure for high-performance AI/ML engines going into industry leading chiplets. This role requires a high degree of ownership, a strong technical background and a problem-solver mindset. By enabling and optimizing our emulation strategy, you will be ensuring the success of internal and external customers, and making a significant impact on bringing Tenstorrent's products to market.

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, Austin, Boston, Toronto, or Belgrade.

Responsibilities:

• Develop emulation infrastructure from scratch, leveraging both commercial and open-source emulation platforms
• Build and deploy emulation testbench components
• Create emulation focused test plans and deploy workloads ranging from low-level kernel operations, to application level and performance testing of the design
• Improve on emulation performance working with design team as well as vendors
• Create flows for deploying emulation capabilities to multiple software teams

Experience & Qualifications:

• BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS with at least 5 years of industry experience
• Hardware Verification methodology and techniques such as emulation, assertions, simulation, debug, coverage
• Previous ownership of FPGA/emulation methodology on ZeBu, Palladium, Veloce, HAPS or a custom FPGA emulation platform
• Programming in Verilog, System Verilog
• Experience with industry standard testbench methodology, assertions, coverage
• Debug tools or waveform viewers.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, Tenstorrent is required to ensure compliance with licensing regulations when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries that have been licensing conditions set by the U.S. government.

Our engineering positions and certain engineering support positions require access to information, systems, or technologies that are subject to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, please note that citizenship/permanent residency, asylee and refugee information and/or documentation will be required and considered as Tenstorrent moves through the employment process.

If a U.S. export license is required, employment will not begin until a license with acceptable conditions is granted by the U.S. government. If a U.S. export license with acceptable conditions is not granted by the U.S. government, then the offer of employment will be rescinded.