Tenstorrent currently has 27 active AI-related job listings, with a significant majority, 81%, focused on serving infrastructure. Engineering roles comprise all of their AI hiring. The company is primarily hiring in the United States and Canada. Frequent technical tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on AI model deployment and management. In the last 30 days, Tenstorrent has not posted any new AI roles, representing a 100% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 22 active AI roles, down 42% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Serve · Engineering. Salary range $100k–$500k (avg $300k).
Tenstorrent currently has 25 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Sr. Engineer, Software - AI Compiler (2), AI/ML Physical Design Flow Engineer, C++ Machine Learning Engineer, Models Training, Design Verification Lead, AI Hardware , Infrastructure and Platform Development Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Tenstorrent's active AI hiring is concentrated in: serving infrastructure (80%), agents (8%), application (4%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Tenstorrent is hiring AI talent in: United States (10 roles), Canada (8 roles), Serbia (4 roles), Poland (2 roles).
Job postings at Tenstorrent most frequently reference: inference infra, model serving, fine tuning, agent orchestration, vision.
In the past 30 days, Tenstorrent has posted 1 new AI-related role.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Model Research, Optimization, and Training Research role focused on optimizing and training large language models on custom AI accelerators, involving techniques like speculative decoding and quantization, and translating research into production-ready systems. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Performance Architect, AI HW Role focuses on analyzing and optimizing AI workloads on hardware architecture (Tensix) to improve performance, power, and area. Involves developing performance models, simulators, and collaborating with RTL, Compiler, and Runtime teams. Connects architecture, software, and RTL for next-gen AI systems. | Serve |
| 8 |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, ML Models Senior Machine Learning Engineer to bring up and optimize cutting-edge AI models on custom AI devices, focusing on performance tuning and optimization techniques. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Metal Runtime (Core Systems) Software Engineer on the Metal Runtime team working on low-level software for AI accelerators, focusing on scheduling, memory movement, and efficient execution across parallel processors. The role involves building and optimizing high-performance runtime systems close to the hardware. | Serve | 7 |
| Design Verification Lead, AI Hardware Lead a team of Verification Engineers to validate the functionality and performance of next-generation AI hardware, focusing on AI-specific data types, compute patterns, and on-chip network validation. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Scale Out Software Engineer focused on low-level systems software for AI hardware, optimizing infrastructure for large inference and training models. Requires strong C/C++ and Linux systems programming skills. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Acceleration Kernel Development Software Engineer focused on optimizing low-level compute kernels for AI hardware, directly impacting ML workload performance and efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, AI Compiler Software Engineer role focused on developing and optimizing Tenstorrent's MLIR-based AI compiler (TT-Forge) to run AI models efficiently on Tenstorrent hardware. Responsibilities include optimizing computational graphs, creating custom dialects and transformation passes, and potentially developing human-in-the-loop tuning tools. | Serve | 7 |
| Associate, Corporate Development This role is in Corporate Development, focusing on M&A, fundraising, partnerships, and corporate strategy for an AI and RISC-V compute company. It requires strategic thinking, financial modeling, and experience in fast-paced professional environments like investment banking or consulting. The role will involve working closely with the C-suite and external stakeholders to drive the company's growth and strategic decisions within the AI and semiconductor ecosystem. | — | 5 |
| Senior Embedded Engineer, AI IP Tenstorrent is seeking a Senior Embedded Engineer to create and optimize reference drivers for their AI IP in a reference system and support customer integrations. This role involves deep systems programming, C/C++, Linux kernel, and hardware-software interfaces, with a focus on performance engineering and enabling broader software stack compatibility. | — | 5 |
| IP Software Generalist Develop and optimize the software stack for AI and RISC-V hardware IP customers, including firmware, drivers, system tools, and APIs, ensuring seamless integration and customer experience. Partner with hardware, IP delivery, customer support, and product teams. | — | 5 |
| Senior Engineer, System-Level Design Verification Tenstorrent is seeking a Senior Engineer, System-Level Design Verification to validate full-system behavior of AI silicon, ensuring reliable and scalable performance in real workloads. The role involves validating system connectivity, coherency, and functionality across large distributed compute platforms, and measuring/tuning performance for end-to-end AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Director of Customer Engineering Director of Customer Engineering role at Tenstorrent, focusing on managing technical relationships with strategic customers and FAEs to translate their silicon needs into precise requirements for hardware and software teams. The role involves connecting customer architectures to Tenstorrent platforms for efficient model execution on their silicon, and overseeing RTL changes and customization for customer-specific AI silicon. | — | 5 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Metal Site Reliability Engineer role focused on ensuring the reliability, observability, and production readiness of Tenstorrent's large-scale AI systems, both internal and customer-facing. This involves troubleshooting, monitoring, automation, and partnering with engineering teams and customers. | — | 5 |
| Silicon Power & Characterization Engineer This role focuses on post-silicon power characterization and correlation for AI semiconductor products. The engineer will develop and execute power measurement strategies, analyze results against pre-silicon models, and collaborate with design, architecture, validation, and systems teams to ensure power and performance specifications are met. The role involves hands-on lab work with measurement tools and scripting, with opportunities to learn about AI SoC behavior and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Metal Runtime (API & Abstractions) Software Engineer on the Metal Runtime team at Tenstorrent, working on low-level software for AI accelerators. Designs runtime systems close to hardware and defines host/device APIs. Focuses on API design, abstraction, performance, and developer experience. | Serve | 5 |
| High Speed AI Interconnect Signal Integrity Engineer Seeking a Senior High Speed Interconnect / Signal Integrity Engineer to design and validate high-bandwidth links for large-scale AI systems, focusing on interconnect solutions across copper and optical technologies for next-generation AI inference and training clusters. | Serve | 5 |
| Field Applications Engineer, IP Product Field Applications Engineer for Tenstorrent's RISC-V CPU and AI accelerator IP products. Responsible for end-to-end technical engagements with customers, translating architectural advantages into wins, and shaping product roadmap with market feedback. Requires deep technical expertise in semiconductors and customer engagement skills. | — | 5 |
| Sr. IP Product Engineer, AI Processor This role is an AI Processor IP Product Engineer who acts as a technical bridge between Tenstorrent's AI processor technology and customer success. The engineer will guide customers in integrating AI processors, RISC-V CPUs, and chiplet solutions into their SoCs, focusing on optimal performance and accelerated time-to-market. The role requires expertise in ASIC design, IP integration, system-level debug, and customer-facing engagements. | — | 5 |
| GCC Compiler Engineer Tenstorrent is seeking a GCC Compiler Engineer to design, develop, and optimize compilers for next-generation RISC-V and AI compute architectures. The role involves working across hardware and software teams to improve performance and integration of custom toolchains for both traditional compute and machine learning workloads. | — | 5 |
| Senior Design Verification Engineer, AI HW Senior Design Verification Engineer for AI hardware, focusing on custom AI compute cores, RISC-V CPUs, and chiplet-based architectures. The role involves validating compute IP and subsystems, building scalable DV infrastructure, and contributing to verification environments, agents, and scoreboards using SystemVerilog and Python. The position requires experience in modern verification methodologies, scripting, and coverage-driven verification, with a focus on AI-native compute architectures. | — | 5 |
| Staff, Ethernet Validation Engineer Tenstorrent is seeking a Staff, Ethernet Validation Engineer to work on cutting-edge AI technology, focusing on validating Ethernet IP in silicon. The role involves building robust validation infrastructure for performance, interoperability, and reliability, and collaborating with hardware and software teams on complex networking challenges. | — | 2 |
| Sr. Engineer, Package Design This role is for a Sr. Engineer focused on package design for advanced semiconductors, supporting AI technology development. The responsibilities include board-level routing studies, design mock-ups, and SI/PI modeling for early-stage package/board co-design. The role emphasizes collaboration with various engineering teams and applying engineering judgment to complex routing and electrical design challenges. While the company works on AI technology and the role mentions applying AI techniques to engineering workflows, the core function is in semiconductor package design, not AI model development. | — | 0 |
| Debug Architect Tenstorrent is seeking a Debug Architect to define and scale debug and trace capabilities across their CPU and AI product lines. This role involves working across hardware and software boundaries to enable validation, diagnosis, and optimization of workloads on RISC-V, x86, or ARM systems. | — | 0 |
| System Management Tools Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining system management tools (tt-smi, utilities) and enhancing OpenBMC for Tenstorrent's AI hardware platforms. The role involves working at the boundary of firmware/BMC and host software, requiring experience in low-level software development, C/C++, Python, and Linux environments. Responsibilities include developing hardware-facing functionality like telemetry, health reporting, and controls, as well as supporting Linux bring-up and test infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Staff Firmware Engineer Staff Firmware Engineer to develop system management firmware for AI hardware platforms, focusing on embedded controllers, bootloaders, and low-level system software integration. Requires strong C/C++ and embedded systems experience, with collaboration across hardware and software teams. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Metal Tenstorrent is seeking an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to automate the provisioning, configuration, and deployment of large-scale AI infrastructure across on-prem data centers and accelerator clusters. The role involves using Ansible and AWX, scripting languages like Python, and managing Linux systems and CI/CD pipelines. | — | 0 |
| Silicon Power & Characterization Lead Tenstorrent is seeking a Lead Engineer to own post-silicon power characterization and correlation for AI semiconductor products. Responsibilities include developing and executing power measurement strategies, correlating silicon data with pre-silicon models, and driving improvements in power architecture and methodologies. The role requires deep understanding of silicon power domains and lab measurement techniques, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Manager of Quality, Supply Chain This role is for a Sr. Manager of Quality within the Supply Chain at Tenstorrent, a company focused on AI technology and RISC-V compute. The individual will build and own the quality organization for hardware systems and custom silicon, setting standards for reliability and scalability. Responsibilities include establishing a Quality Management System (QMS), driving Design for Quality, defining manufacturing controls, and managing supplier quality programs. The role requires extensive experience in hardware/semiconductor quality, leadership in building quality functions, and frequent travel. | — | 0 |
| Signal Integrity Engineer Tenstorrent is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer to design, simulate, and validate high-speed interconnects for AI hardware. The role involves collaboration with ASIC packaging teams, ODMs, and internal layout teams, as well as supporting post-silicon bring-up and troubleshooting. Experience with high-speed digital design, PCB/package design, and SI/PI simulation tools is required. | — | 0 |
| Staff Engineer, Software Release and Packaging - RISC V Tenstorrent is seeking a Staff Engineer for Software Release and Packaging, focusing on RISC-V and system IP products. The role involves building, packaging, and releasing software that combines Linux and open-source packages with proprietary software to enable customer success. This is a remote or hybrid position in North America or Australia, with compensation ranging from $100k to $500k. A key requirement is eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Engineer, SoC Design Verification Tenstorrent is seeking a Sr. Engineer, SoC Design Verification to focus on pre-silicon verification of DFD logic in advanced AI SoCs. This role involves developing and owning verification environments, writing and executing test scenarios, analyzing coverage gaps, and debugging failures. The engineer will also automate flows for JTAG/scanchain testing and integrate AI productivity tools. The company emphasizes its cutting-edge AI technology and the need for innovation in semiconductors. | — | 0 |
| Inventory Manager, Supply Chain Inventory Manager responsible for end-to-end visibility, accuracy, and control of company-owned inventory across global locations, partnering with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Quality teams. Requires strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, outsourced operations, and ERP systems (SAP S4 HANA). | — | 0 |
| Power Architect Tenstorrent is seeking a Power Architect to drive architectural strategy, modeling, and design decisions for power optimization in their AI compute systems. This role involves predicting and tracking power consumption, proposing architectural changes, building workloads to stress use cases, and correlating pre-silicon estimates to silicon measurements. The position requires extensive experience with power estimation tools and a background in power-optimization of compute datapath and/or interconnects. | — | 0 |
| Engineer, PCIe Validation This role focuses on validating high-speed interfaces like PCIe for next-generation AI hardware. It involves debugging complex system-level issues across hardware and firmware, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and working with lab equipment. The role is not directly building AI models or systems but is crucial for the underlying hardware infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Sr Staff Engineer, SoC RTL Design Tenstorrent is seeking a Sr Staff Engineer, SoC RTL Design to define, build, and optimize high-performance IP and SoC architectures for next-gen AI and compute workloads. This role involves RTL development, performance optimization, and collaboration with cross-functional teams in the design of cutting-edge AI semiconductors. | — | 0 |