Staff Software Engineer, Tenstorrent

Cloud Infrastructure

$100-500k

OTE

Range inclusive of base and variable compensation targets

Kubernetes

Python

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

REST API

loki

Expert level

Austin

San Francisco Bay Area

Next-generation computing company building computers for AI

Job no longer available

Next-generation computing company building computers for AI

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseManufacturingDeep TechMachine Learning

Job no longer available

$100-500k

OTE

Range inclusive of base and variable compensation targets

Kubernetes

Python

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

REST API

loki

Expert level

Austin

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseManufacturingDeep TechMachine Learning

Company mission

To bring unique solutions to the problems facing AI and machine learning.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience working with distributed systems in Cloud and/or HPC environments
5+ years of experience working with clustered (multi-host) AI hardware and applications for training and inference
5+ years of experience with Kubernetes clusters, including cluster and application deployment (e.g., CNI, CSI, Helm), operations, and development of extensions (e.g., Device plugins, Operators)
Strong working knowledge of Python and Go
Infrastructure as Code as a first-class citizen (e.g. Ansible)
Strong Git, GitOps, and CI/CD experience
Familiarity with performance requirement implications of AI/ML workloads, both inference and training
Familiarity with virtualization technologies and platforms
Hands-on experience with MLOps concepts and frameworks for end-to-end model training pipelines
Strong understanding of networking concepts – experience with network hardware configuration and management is a plus
Familiarity with security implications of multi-tenant environments on hardware, software, and networking level
Familiarity with observability, monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
Agile / lean software project management experience
Strong programming skills with years of experience in various programming languages; familiarity of both object oriented and functional programming
REST API development and integration experience – full-stack web development experience is a plus

What the job involves

This Staff Cloud Software position is looking to bring new specialized expertise into the team in the area of distributed high-performance and AI computing, especially in Kubernetes-based cloud native environments
You will be driving design, implementation, and integration of systems to support scaling compute capabilities seamlessly from single-host systems into exaflop-scale clusters
Design and drive implementation of distributed systems for AI computing applications in Cloud and novel supercomputing cluster environments
Hands-on software development, testing, integration, operations, and support
Closely collaborate with the team through the full stack and life cycle of AI data center applications, from data center design and rollout to MLOps
Operate within on-premises data centers and public cloud environments
Drive projects through their whole software development lifecycle, both on technical and non-technical side
Collaboration with both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders with differing backgrounds, being able to communicate highly complex topics to diverse audiences
Continuous improvement of engineering practices through code reviews and adoption of relevant techniques and technologies

Our take

Tenstorrent is a US- and Canada-based semiconductor startup specializing in processors for AI workloads. Rather than building gneral-purpose CPUs or GPus, the company develops custom chips and sofrware optimized for running moder AI models. As demand for AI accelerates, and as a global chip shortage reshapes the semiconductor industry, these trends have become strong tailwinds for Tenstorrent.

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 specialized 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

Top investors

52% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Dec 2024

$693m

SERIES D

Jun 2024

$300m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.3bn

Company HQ

Flemingdon Park, Toronto, ON

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.

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