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. At Tenstorrent, we build open, state of the art compute for real workloads and real developers. You will own CPU core-level testbench development and verification, shaping how our out-of-order RISC-V CPUs behave in silicon. This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX 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. Who You Are You bring 8+ years in CPU verification, CPU testbench development, or closely related digital design. You have deep hands-on experience building and owning CPU core-level testbenches, not just using existing environments. You know high-performance out-of-order CPU microarchitecture in depth. You are comfortable developing testbench infrastructure in CVM methodology, with UVM experience as a strong plus. You work comfortably across RTL, waveforms, logs, regressions, and cross-functional debug with design, DV, emulation, and post-silicon teams. You are comfortable using AI-assisted verification workflows to improve debug, stimulus creation, and coverage analysis, while applying strong engineering judgment to validate results. What We Need Lead hands-on CPU core-level testbench development for hi
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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 seeking a CPU Verification Fellow to lead verification strategy and execution for next-generation RISC-V high-performance processors. This role requires deep CPU verification expertise, strong microarchitecture understanding, and the ability to guide large engineering teams from early design through tapeout and post-silicon validation. The ideal candidate has verified complex out-of-order, speculative, superscalar CPUs and can define scalable methodology across simulation, formal verification, emulation, FPGA, and silicon bring-up. This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA 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 will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are You have deep experience verifying high-performance superscalar CPUs, ideally including out-of-order and speculative processors. You have strong knowledge of RISC-V architecture, including ISA compliance, privileged architecture, virtual memory, atomics, vector extensions, and memory model behavior. You are highly proficient in SystemVerilog, UVM, constrained-random verification, assertions, functional coverage, and advanced debug methodologies. You have hands-on experience with CPU refere
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. At Tenstorrent, we build open, state of the art compute for real workloads and real developers. You will own CPU focused test generator development and verification strategy, shaping how our out-of-order RISC-V CPUs are validated against complex ISA and microarchitectural behavior. This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX 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. Who You Are You bring 8+ years in CPU design verification, test generation, or closely related CPU validation work. You have led development of test generators for x86, ARM, or RISC-V ISA environments. You understand CPU ISA behavior, privileged architecture, and high-performance out-of-order CPU microarchitecture. You are comfortable building tools, stimulus, and automation that scale verification across large CPU programs. You communicate clearly across design, DV, architecture, emulation, and post-silicon teams. What We Need Lead development of CPU core-level test generators for high-performance out-of-order RISC-V cores. Own generator strategy, infrastructure, and methodology for ISA and microarchitectural verification in both pre-silico
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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 seeking a SoC Physical Design Verification Engineer to drive full-chip signoff and ensure manufacturable, high-quality silicon across advanced technology nodes. You’ll lead physical verification closure (DRC, LVS, ERC, etc.), debug issues using standard industry PV tools, and collaborate across RTL, PD, CAD, and packaging teams to achieve successful tapeouts. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy solving complex challenges in cutting-edge silicon, we’d love to hear from you. This role is hybrid , based out of Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX or Fort Collins, CO. 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 A seasoned engineer with a strong background in CPU/IP/SoC physical verification and tapeout closure. A hands-on problem solver who excels at debugging and driving signoff through complex verification flows. A collaborative team player who works effectively across RTL, PD, CAD, and foundry interfaces. A mentor and technical leader passionate about building efficient, manufacturable silicon. What We Need BS/MS in Electrical/Electronics Engineering (or related) with 7–14 years of hands-on CPU/IP/SoC physical verif
$100K – $500K/yr
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. We are looking for a Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer to lead end-to-end verification efforts for our advanced CPU and AI compute platforms. This role is ideal for seasoned engineers with deep expertise in CPU verification who excel at driving complex test plans to closure, mentoring teams, and leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate innovation. This role is hybrid, based out of Boston, Toronto, Ottawa or Santa Clara. 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 Proven track record leading end-to-end CPU verification across processor cores, caches, interconnects, interrupts, MMU/IOMMU, and cache coherency protocols, with multi-chip and emulation experience a plus. Expert in creating comprehensive test plans and building simulation testbenches using SV-UVM, C/DPI, and Cocotb. Skilled in managing high-volume regression execution, complex failure triage, and driving test plans and coverage metrics to closure. Experienced leader and mentor dedicated to guiding junior engineers and fostering verification best practices across teams. Proficient in leveraging modern AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to optimize ver
$100K – $500K/yr
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 seeking a SoC Design Verification Engineer to lead pre-silicon verification of the Beowulf SoC, with focus on the Compute Subsystem (CSS), DDR memory subsystem, and Fabric NoC. This role will drive coverage, coherency, memory traffic, connectivity, error handling, and bring-up features critical to silicon success. This role is hybrid, based out of Boston, MA; Toronto, ON; 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. Who You Are Deeply curious about SoC architecture, compute systems, DDR behavior, and Fabric NoC/interconnect verification. Expert in UVM, SystemVerilog, coverage-driven verification, assertions, and subsystem-level debug. Experienced in verifying compute subsystems, DDR controllers and PHY-facing logic, NoC/interconnect protocols, coherency, ordering, and data movement. Comfortable with reset, power management, error handling, performance, and high-concurrency system scenarios. Proactive, detail-oriented, and effective in cross-functional technical discussions. Familiar with Python, C/C++, Tcl, CocoTB, or similar verification automation tools. What We Need Develop and own scalable verification environmen
$100K – $500K/yr
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. Our Tensix team is building custom AI compute cores, RISC-V CPUs, and chiplet-based architectures for datacenter, edge, and automotive AI. Design Verification Engineers on this team validate compute IP and subsystems and build scalable DV infrastructure to keep verification fast, automated, and production-grade. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, ON, Austin, TX or Belgrade, Serbia. 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 Experienced in modern verification methodologies with strong SystemVerilog skills and exposure to structured testbench development. Comfortable working from block-level to system-level verification and reasoning about microarchitecture behavior from specs and waveforms. Proficient in Linux environments with Python, or Bash scripting for automate builds, parse logs, manage CI pipelines. Skilled in coverage-driven verification and confident debugging across RTL, testbench, and workload scenarios. Motivated by AI hardware and eager to learn verification strategies for new architectures and domains. What We Need Contribute to verification of Tensix IP and subsystems from early planning through tape-out, owning cov
$100K – $500K/yr
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 seeking a SoC Design Verification Engineer to validate the System Management Controller (SMC) and enable seamless multi-chip integration. In this role, you will design and execute tests, build infrastructure, and debug issues across chiplet-based SoCs. You’ll have the opportunity to work with remote mentorship while contributing to the foundation of scalable multi-die systems. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, Ontario, Boston, MA 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. Who You Are Proficient in SystemVerilog, SV-UVM, Python, and C/C++ with strong verification skills. Experienced in writing test plans, building infrastructure, and debugging hardware/software flows. Comfortable working with remote mentorship and distributed teams. Familiar with AI-assisted tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude to accelerate verification. What We Need Develop and maintain SMC tests and supporting DV infrastructure. Write, execute, and track test plans for chiplet and multi-chip SoC designs. Use C/C++ to develop tests compiled, loaded, and executed directly on the DUT. Triage, analyze, and debug issues in clos
$100K – $500K/yr
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. We are looking for a Design Verification Engineer to contribute to the unit-level verification of our RISC-V CPU front end—including instruction fetch, branch prediction, and surrounding fetch control structures. As a key individual contributor within our front-end DV team, you will focus on building testbenches, generating stimulus, and developing checkers for complex microarchitectural scenarios. This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX 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. Who You Are Front-End Experience: Solid background verifying CPU front-end blocks—such as instruction fetch, branch predictors (BTB, TAGE, RAS), instruction caches/TLBs, or decode—using SystemVerilog, UVM, and C++. Unit-Level Focus: Hands-on experience building clean, controllable unit testbench environments with precise stimulus and checking. Reusable Design: Pragmatic approach to building transactors, predictors, and scoreboards that can be reused across verification levels. Collaborative Problem Solver: Comfortable working alongside RTL designers to trace and fix misspeculation, redirect, and edge-case fetch bugs. What We Need Unit-Level Verifica
Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. As a Product Engineer in Node Development group, you will be part of a forward-thinking team of engineers that solves complex problems to develop industry leading DRAM! You will engage on new technology at design start and be part of a team responsible for delivering technology to enable the full product portfolio, initial device qualification and production ramp. This will be accomplished through innovation and by cross-functional engagement with partner groups; Design, Test, Technology Development, Marketing, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance departments to co-optimize product and process. While you may not exhibit all of the characteristics/skills listed below today, we are highly interested in a teammate who is motivated to grow in technical breadth and depth. Suppose you are open to learning while being a valued member of a team of world-class engineers. In that case, we are determined to help build upon your existing foundation, while focusing on your individual and collaborative skills in this exciting and outstanding opportunity. Responsibilities Include: Enable new process node startup, qualification, yield, and ramp Collaborate with internal engineering groups; Design, Technology Development, Design for Test, and Quality teams to understand yield issues and priorities. Provide direction to development teams using thorough knowledge for process integration Develop and key metrics for feedback on a new technology Support design verification and validation using CAD tools and simulation
Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite Stryker is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to join our Neurovascular division. This is a hybrid r ole based in Fremont, CA . As the Senior Design Quality Engineer , you will be actively involved in Product Risk Management, Post Market Surveillance, Design Control and Product Quality Improvement. You will be involved in a fast-paced mix of short design change efforts and will be responsible for product risk management and adherence to design control requirements throughout the product lifecycle. You will be responsible for ensuring that post market data and feedback is channeled into the risk management system throughout the product lifecycle. You will make regular use of problem-solving tools and statistical analysis to analyze and trend data and provide quality input into technical investigations, perform test method development and validation, design verification, risk assessment and design reviews. You will be responsible for supporting product testing and failure analysis, writing protocols and reports, creating and maintaining risk files and assessing the impact of necessary changes to our products. You will lead initiatives to increase sales and improve the customer experience of our devices. Neurovascular (NV) products push the boundaries of technology to meet ever increasing product performance requirements, making the goal of assessing and demonstrating, safety, performance and compliance an exciting challenge. What You Will Do Develop qualification plans, protocols, and reports for new products, existing products, components, and subassemblies. Execute product testing, inspection, verification, and validation activities to suppor
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the Role We're hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to build and lead Replit's Anti-Abuse team from the ground up. This is a foundational 0-to-1 role: you'll define the anti-abuse roadmap, hire a small team of engineers and data analysts, and ship the systems that protect Replit's platform, users, and economics from adversarial actors. You'll partner across Support, Legal, Security, Infrastructure, and the Money and Growth teams to make abuse economically unviable while keeping friction low for legitimate users. Replit sits at the frontier of AI-native abuse. Our platform is a target for phishing and scam hosting, cryptomining, LLM token farming, card and coupon fraud, and increasingly, abuse driven by AI agents themselves. The team you build will define how Replit defends against all of it. What You'll Do Build the anti-abuse roadmap from scratch : Define the threat model, prioritize across abuse vectors (phishing/scam hosting, cryptomining, token farming, payment fraud, AI agent exploitation), and translate it into a shipping plan with clear sequencing and tradeoffs. Design progressive verification and identity infrastructure : Build the "ladder of trust" that gates increasing platform capabilities (referrals, additional credits, access to powerful agent features, Missions) behind escalating verification. This includes a humanity/identity layer that's distinct from user accounts, integrations with KYC-grade verification providers, and the policy engine that decides what level of trust unlocks what behavior. This infrastructure is core not just to promo integrity but to how Replit safely expands agent capabilities over time. Ship as a hands-on EM : Stay in the code. Use the latest AI coding tools (including Rep
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are hiring a Lead, Ads Prospecting & Growth Intelligence to build the intelligence and orchestration platform powering OpenAI’s ads business. This person will help us identify the right companies and people, understand why they are relevant, determine the right next action, and learn from what happens afterward. Own the prospecting function for the ads business, serving SMB Ads while building a foundation reusable across segments. Set the vision, operating model, roadmap, platform choices, business rules, adoption, and outcomes; and partner with Ads Engineering, Data Science, and internal platform teams. Decide what to build in-house, enable through internal platforms, or deliver through selected vendors and partners. In This Role, You Will Lead the function’s strategy, roadmap, operating model, and adoption. Connect platform investments to measurable advertiser and business outcomes. Define a unified prospect, account, contact, and advertiser data model. Establish standards for identity, data quality, provenance, freshness, confidence, and consent. Combine market, intent, behavioral, product, CRM, campaign, and customer-success signals to improve targeting and customer engagement. Design enrichment and verification workflows. Evaluate in-house cap
What you’ll do Own and evolve the Quality Management System (QMS) to support a regulated medical device development program, including design controls and DHF maintenance. Establish and enforce requirements traceability: user needs → design requirements → verification/validation artifacts and change control. Define and run the program-level V&V strategy (verification, validation, and test coverage), including test plans, protocols, reports, and acceptance criteria. Drive risk management activities (e.g., DFMEA / PFMEA, hazard analyses) and ensure mitigations are reflected in requirements and verification. Lead document control: reviews, approvals, training, retention, and audit readiness. Partner with engineering to make quality “native” to the dev workflow (automated testing, release gates, software configuration management). Prepare the program for audits and inspections, including hands-on audit leadership. What we’re looking for Senior experience leading quality for complex hardware + software products in a regulated environment. Deep familiarity with design controls, DHF, document control, risk management, and verification planning. Strong systems thinking and the ability to translate ambiguous product intent into testable requirements. Comfortable collaborating directly with multidisciplinary engineering (recon/ML, embedded, mechanical, EE, cloud). Useful experience Regulated product quality leadership (ISO 13485 / 21 CFR 820 or equivalent), including audit readiness and FDA-facing work. eQMS + document control fluency (e.g., Greenlight Guru) that integrates cleanly with modern engineering workflows.
About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor companies to deploy production-grade AI systems across the entire chip design lifecycle: design, verification, and physical design. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to translate frontier model capabilities into systems that materially improve engineering workflows and accelerate innovation. Our work turns early, high-touch deployments into repeatable solution patterns, reference architectures, and evaluation practices that scale across the semiconductor ecosystem. About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer to join our semiconductor-focused Forward Deployed Engineering team. This is a senior IC role that will begin with a strong emphasis on physical design expertise, technical judgment, advisory leverage, and customer credibility, with the expectation that the person will grow into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role over time. In the near term, you will serve as the team’s physical design SME across semiconductor deployments: helping FDEs, Product, and Research understand backend implementation workflows, pressure-test AI-assisted solution ideas against real physical design constraints, and raise the quality of our customer-facing technical work. You will help the broader team build fluency in implementation flows, EDA tooling, signoff methodology, and the trade-offs that shape physical design decisions in practice. Over time, we expect this role to expand beyond SME support into broader FDE ownership: partnering directly with customers, shaping deployment strategy, building and iterating production-grade AI systems, driving technical workstreams, and helping turn high-touch semiconductor deployments into repeatable solutions. This is a strong fit for someone who brings deep physical design expertise today and is excited to grow into a customer-facing, syst
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