Tenstorrent Sr Staff Engineer, SoC RTL Design at Tenstorrent defines, builds, and optimizes high-performance IP and SoC architectures for AI workloads. Works at the intersection of microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and performance-aware design.
Responsibilities
Architecture and RTL implementation of custom IP blocks and SoC components
Make performance-aware design decisions for compute, interconnect, or memory-heavy blocks
Contribute to validation using emulation, FPGA prototyping, or UVM flows
Support backend teams with synthesis and timing closure awareness
Qualification
Comfortable optimizing for powerWhat You Will LearnHow cutting-edge AI chips are built
Required
A digital design expert with a deep understanding of computer architecture and IP microarchitecture.
Skilled in RTL development (Verilog/VHDL) and familiar with full ASIC flows.
Comfortable optimizing for power, performance, and area (PPA) under aggressive design goals.
A naturally collaborative and technical engineer — you thrive in spec definition, peer reviews, and team-wide planning.
Architecture and RTL implementation of Tenstorrent’s custom IP blocks and SoC components.
Performance-aware design decisions for compute, interconnect, or memory-heavy blocks.
Occasional contributions to validation using emulation, FPGA prototyping, or UVM flows.
Strong synthesis and timing closure awareness to support backend teams.
Prior experience in on-chip fabric and interconnect designs is an asset.
What You Will Learn
How cutting-edge AI chips are built, from spec to silicon.
What it takes to collaborate with teams designing novel processor and memory architectures.
Preferred
Prior experience in on-chip fabric and interconnect designs