Power Architect

Tenstorrent · Semiconductors · Toronto, ON · Tensix

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. Predict power consumption early in architecture and track it through RTL evolution.
  2. Propose architectural changes for power optimization across server and non-server markets.
  3. Build workloads that stress real-world use cases and guide thermal and power-delivery solutions.
  4. Correlate pre-silicon estimates to silicon measurements and drive power efficiency improvements.

Skills

Required

  • Power estimation tools (PowerArtist, PtPX, RTL Architect, PrimePower)
  • Modeling and optimizing power at the architectural level
  • Power-gating, voltage domains, and leakage control
  • Verilog HDL
  • Design Compiler
  • C/C++
  • Python

Nice to have

  • Background in power-optimization of compute datapath and/or interconnects

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years experience with power estimation tools like PowerArtist, PtPX, RTL Architect, and PrimePower.
  • Track record of influencing architectural and micro-architectural changes that meaningfully reduced design power.