Senior Engineer, Tenstorrent
Hardware Infrastructure & Framework
$100-500k
Building computers for AI
Open for applications
Building computers for AI
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$100-500k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring unique solutions to the problems facing AI and machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about tech with a background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or something similar—ready to dive deep into hardware-software magic
- Love writing low-level code in C, C++, or Rust that gets hardware up and running
- Comfortable with hardware using protocols like I2C, SPI, and UART—hands-on experience is a plus
- Enjoy solving puzzles by debugging across hardware, firmware, and Linux software—no challenge is too big
- Someone who enjoys building the bridges between hardware and software—designing interfaces that make everything work smoothly under the hood
- A developer who’s comfortable creating and maintaining libraries that help hardware talk reliably to the rest of the system
- A collaborative teammate who enjoys working closely with hardware and firmware engineers to shape how systems come together
- A thoughtful debugger who loves solving tough cross-layer issues and takes pride in writing clean, maintainable, and future-proof code
What the job involves
- We're building the backbone of AI hardware, and we’re looking for someone who’s excited to dive into the core of the system—writing the code that makes everything click. You'll work side by side with hardware and firmware engineers to create fast, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that ties it all together. If solving real problems and building the foundation for next-gen AI sounds like your kind of fun, let’s talk
- This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, Canada
- 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
- What You Will Learn
- How to build and scale the backbone of next-gen AI hardware powering tomorrow’s breakthroughs
- The art of designing flexible, high-performance interfaces that connect software and hardware in elegant ways
- How to collaborate across teams and gain hands-on experience aligning low-level systems with big-picture architecture
- To untangle complex challenges as you debug and optimize full-stack systems that span silicon to software
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".
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Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
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.
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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