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Sr. Staff Engineer, IP Runtime

TensTorrent · Austin, Texas, United States; Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

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About TensTorrent

Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together...

About the role

You will work at the hardware/software boundary to define how those hardware blocks are initialized, coordinated, and used by the runtime. You will determine how workloads are dispatched, scheduled, synchronized, and executed across the accelerator, while solving complex performance problems through implementation, bring-up, and debugging. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • An expert C or C++ engineer with a track record of designing and delivering complex, performance-critical systems
  • Experienced working close to hardware in low-level, embedded, bare-metal, or accelerator environments and translating hardware specifications into reliable software behavior
  • Strong in runtime fundamentals, including command execution, scheduling, synchronization, memory movement, resource management, and parallelism
  • Skilled at debugging and optimizing systems end-to-end, especially at the hardware/software boundary
  • A technical leader who collaborates effectively across hardware, firmware, compiler, and systems teams and mentors other engineers
More about this role

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

You will work at the hardware/software boundary to define how those hardware blocks are initialized, coordinated, and used by the runtime. You will determine how workloads are dispatched, scheduled, synchronized, and executed across the accelerator, while solving complex performance problems through implementation, bring-up, and debugging.

This role is hybrid and based in Toronto, ON or Austin, TX.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers...

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