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. Tenstorrent is looking for a Workload Performance Analysis Engineer to help shape the performance of our next-generation RISC-V CPUs across modern datacenter and agentic AI workloads. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of hardware and software, bringing real-world applications onto RISC-V platforms, characterizing their behavior, and using workload analysis to uncover opportunities for better CPU performance, efficiency, and scalability. You’ll work closely with CPU architects, RTL designers, software engineers, and compiler teams to understand how demanding workloads exercise the CPU and translate those insights into architectural improvements. From reducing large production workloads for performance modeling to correlating simulation results with hardware behavior, your work will directly influence CPU architecture and performance across cloud, enterprise, and emerging AI workloads. This role is remote based out of North America. 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. Who You Are You have a strong background in CPU performance analysis, workload characterization, or computer architecture, with experience connecting software beha
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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. Tenstorrent is looking for a Workload Performance Optimization Engineer to help optimize the software workloads that run on our next-generation RISC-V platforms. You’ll work across modern datacenter and agentic AI workloads—including Java, Python, PHP, Node.js, Lua, G
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What We Need Master’s or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, with strong experience in performance optimization, computer architecture, compilers, or systems software; As the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon your citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S
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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 experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
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