Staff, Physical Design Foundry Technologist, Tenstorrent
$100-500k
+ Variable compensation targets
Building computers for AI
Job no longer available
Building computers for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$100-500k
+ Variable compensation targets
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring unique solutions to the problems facing AI and machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of related experience is strongly preferred
- Expertise in optimizing PPA for high performance and low power designs
- Hands-on experience with simulation, synthesis, block and chip level implementation with industry standard PnR flows and tools
- Prior experience working on high performance technology nodes and understanding of deep sub-micron design problems/solutions
- Prior experience working with Foundries is a must
- Cross functional experience working with pre and post silicon design teams is a plus
- Programming skills in Tcl/Perl/Shell/Python is preferred
What the job involves
- Lead the assessment of advanced CMOS and memory technologies. Be a key stakeholder in internal technology roadmap discussions and selections. Ensure timely resolution and execution of technology-related decisions
- Comprehensive evaluation and selection of foundry processes for Tenstorrent based on PPA, Cost and Time-to-market. Validate process capabilities to meet our requirements
- Drive strategic engagements with partner foundries on Design Technology Co-Optimization. Ensure foundries meet process development and qualification schedules
- Review and analyze foundry Process Design Kits (PDKs) and design collaterals for accuracy and quality. Conduct Ring-oscillator Sims and early PPA assessments to provide technology/scaling trends and set competitive technology targets and differentiated roadmaps
- Be the primary interface to Internal design and external foundry teams with respect to all foundation and other IP related queries, technology and Design Manual queries
- Build libraries for the foundation IPs and update internal tools, flows and release it to design teams for consumption. Collaborate with design teams to optimize processes for improved Performance, Power, and Area (PPA)
- Be a key liaison between the both pre and post silicon teams to help ensure we have optimal yield and binning strategies to enable high volume manufacturing
Our take
Advances in artificial intelligence apps, combined with a global chip shortage, are strong tailwinds for chip processor Tenstorrent. The semi-conducter developer is designing specialized chips for running artificial intelligence applications, building chips for what it calls "software 2.0".
The company’s unique approach is to build for this future software, which it believes will be written at a higher level. Combining this with conditional computing, Tenstorrent supports a scalable distributed network approach that is analogous to a human brain.
While the market for specialised AI hardware is destined to be gigantic, the company has to compete with a plethora of hopeful startups (as well as major tech companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm). That said, Tenstorrent boasts an excellent trajectory so far, with its latest moves including unveiling its high-end Wormhole AI processors, and a partnership with LG which will see the development of chips for "Affectionate Intelligence".
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2024
$700m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$300m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company values
- Collaboration
- Curiosity
- Commitment to Solving Hard Problems
Company HQ
Flemingdon Park, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Jim Keller
(CEO)Previously Senior VP of Silicon Engineering at Intel Corporation, VP of Autopilot Hardware Engineering at Tesla, Corporate VP and Chief Architect at AMD, and VP of Engineering at Apple.
Milos Trajkovic
(Co-Founder & Director of Hardware Engineering)Former Manager of Firmware Design Engineering at AMD, and FPGA design engineer at Signum Concepts.
Ivan Hamer
(Co-Founder)Former Consulting Software/Embedded Engineer at AMD, and Senior Software Developer at iNTERFACEWARE.
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