Sr Staff Engineer, Cpu System Microarchitect

Tenstorrent · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · RISC V

Tenstorrent is seeking a Sr Staff Engineer, CPU System Microarchitect to define and implement CPU system RTL, combining cores, clusters, fabrics, and subsystem components. The role involves collaboration with DV, PD, architecture, and performance teams to deliver a functional, timing, and power-converged design. Experience with microarchitecture definition, RTL coding, and debugging is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. You’ll work to combine multiple cores, multiple clusters of cores, fabrics and subsystem components together, collaborating with DV, PD, architecture and performance teams to deliver a functional, timing, and power-converged design.
  2. Collaborate closely with DV, PD, architecture and performance engineers to meet functional, timing, and power goals.
  3. Use innovative techniques to optimize power, performance, and area while driving RTL experiments and evaluating results.
  4. Partner with validation and test teams to ensure robust pre-silicon and post-silicon execution.
  5. Enhance RTL design environment, tools, and methodologies to improve development efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • CPU systems RTL and microarchitecture
  • RTL coding (Verilog/VHDL)
  • Debugging RTL/logic
  • Microarchitecture definition
  • Design specification
  • Performance-driven trade-off analysis

Nice to have

  • Simulation tools
  • Synthesis tools
  • Power analysis tools
  • Pre/post-silicon environments

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of industry experience with strong CPU systems RTL and microarchitecture background.