Staff Engineer, Tenstorrent

SoC, DFD Design Verification

$100-500k

Senior and Expert level

Boston

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

Next-generation computing company building computers for AI

Open for applications

Next-generation computing company building computers for AI

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseManufacturingDeep TechMachine Learning

Open for applications

$100-500k

Senior and Expert level

Boston

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

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

Deeply curious about silicon debug/test infrastructure and its verification
Expert in UVM and verification of DFT/DFD features, scan, and on-chip trace logic
Comfortable working with Siemens Tessent flows, iJTAG, and advanced verification automation
Proactive, detail-oriented, and thrives in cross-functional technical discussions
Ideally familiar with tools similar to CocoTB

What the job involves

Tenstorrent is seeking an engineer who will focus on pre-silicon verification of DFD logic in advanced AI SoCs, driving coverage of debug, test, and bring-up features critical to silicon success
This role is hybrid, based out of Boston, MA; Toronto, Ottawa; or Santa Clara, CA
We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting
Develop and own verification environments for DFD logic across AI chiplets and SoCs
Write, refine, and execute test scenarios for scan, MBIST, array dump, and clock-stop features
Analyze coverage gaps, debug failures, and collaborate closely with DFT and RTL teams
Automate flows for JTAG/scanchain testing and integrate AI productivity tools
What You Will Learn:
In-depth DFD/DFT verification using cutting-edge Tessent workflows and scripting
Integration of pre-silicon DFD verification with silicon debug strategies
How AI-driven automation reshapes modern DV workflows
Exposure to security-conscious debug methodologies in advanced SoC designs

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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