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📍 Austin, TX, United States· Full-time
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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. About the Role The Product Platform Tools team builds and operates Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform - the foundation that customer-facing and operational teams across the company rely on to do their jobs. As a Systems Engineer on this team, you'll design and build the backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations that power this platform at enterprise scale, working closely with both engineering teams and non-engineering

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📍 Austin, TX, United States· Full-time
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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. About the Team Cloudflare handles traffic for almost 25% of the Internet. That’s a lot of data. On the Town Lake team, our mission is to make that data accessible and valuable for users across the company. We connect data from dozens of source systems and make it available so that any user in the company can answer any question in 5 minutes or less, using SQL or plain english. We’re building a modern, agentic-first data lakehouse platform ba

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📍 Austin, TX, United States· Full-time
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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Austin, US About the Role Cloudflare's People team supports 5,000+ employees globally. To scale, we are building an AI-driven operating layer on the Cloudflare Developer Platform to automate workflows, ensure data integrity, and streamline employee support. You will ship production systems for hiring, onboarding, and self-service, using AI to create leverage while designing rigorous guardrails for sensitive employee data. Lever

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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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. We’re looking for a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer who’s excited to build with the engineers using the AI computers Tenstorrent makes. You will create continuity between customers, engineering, and AI inference service products. This is an engineering role first: you contribute production code, operate deployments, and you can explain a trade-off to customer leadership as clearly as to core engineering teams. This is a high-autonomy role with direct customer impact. This role is remote, based out of North America, with preference near one of our main hubs: Santa Clara, CA; Austin, TX; or Toronto, ON. 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 understand how accelerator compute, memory, and networking topology constrain AI workloads, and don't treat hardware as a black box. You're an early adopter of AI for your work from coding to building agentic workflows that multiply your impact. You work directly with customers to understand their challenges and provide effective solutions. You are comfortable debugging across the full inference stack: from failing requests, through the serving layer, down to OOMs or kernel dispatch if n

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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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 building the world’s fastest, most efficient AI compute clusters. TT-Fabric is the high-performance nervous system of this platform: the low-level networking layer that lets thousands of RISC-V and AI processors snap together into a single, massively parallel distributed supercomputer. If you love squeezing nanoseconds out of hot paths, designing protocols that move data at absurd scale, and turning messy hardware constraints into elegant distributed systems, this is an opportunity to shape the fabric that future AI models will run on This role is hybrid based out of Santa Clara, CA; Austin, TX; or Toronto, ON. 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 We Are Strong systems engineer with deep C or C++ experience and comfort working in low-level or bare-metal environments. Passionate about hardware-software interaction, performance tuning, and eliminating inefficiencies at the protocol level. Curious about networking, synchronization, and communication across large clusters. Comfortable reasoning from first principles and challenging industry conventions. Motivated by building infrastructure that directly impacts large-scale

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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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. As a Director, Strategy & Solutions in our GTM team, this role defines how Tenstorrent shows up in the market for AI/ML workloads—from positioning and messaging to real customer solutions. Sitting at the intersection of product, sales, engineering, and marketing, this role turns deep technical capability into clear, compelling value across industries and use cases. This role is hybrid OR remote, based out of The United States. 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 at connecting complex AI/ML systems to real customer outcomes and business value. Comfortable acting as a technical storyteller for developers, architects, and executive audiences. Naturally curious and forward-looking about customer workloads, competitive dynamics, and emerging AI trends. What We Need Ownership of GTM positioning and messaging for Tenstorrent’s AI hardware, software stack, and solutions. Development of application - and vertical-specific value propositions across enterprise, cloud, and regulated markets. Value proposition & GTM strategy, including creation of technical collateral (whitepapers, sales decks, benchmarks, dem

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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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 building next-generation processors and systems, bringing together world-class expertise across silicon, systems, and software. We are looking for a CPU Performance Modeling Architect to help evaluate, shape, and optimize the performance of future CPU architectures. In this role, you’ll use performance modeling, workload analysis, and deep understanding of CPU architecture to answer complex questions about how a processor should be designed. You’ll work closely with CPU architects, RTL designers, software and compiler teams, and system engineers to identify performance opportunities, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and turn modeling insights into actionable design decisions. 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 A CPU architect, performance architect, or performance modeling engineer with experience influencing CPU architecture or microarchitecture decisions. You have a strong understanding of modern processor architecture and enjoy digging into why a CPU performs the way it does. You are comfortable combining hardware architecture, software, data, and

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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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. As a Manager, Strategy & Solutions in our GTM team, this role defines how Tenstorrent shows up in the market for AI/ML workloads—from positioning and messaging to real customer solutions. Sitting at the intersection of product, sales, engineering, and marketing, this role turns deep technical capability into clear, compelling value across industries and use cases. This role is hybrid OR remote, based out of The United States. 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 at connecting complex AI/ML systems to real customer outcomes and business value. Comfortable acting as a technical storyteller for developers, architects, and executive audiences. Naturally curious and forward-looking about customer workloads, competitive dynamics, and emerging AI trends. What We Need Ownership of GTM positioning and messaging for Tenstorrent’s AI hardware, software stack, and solutions. Development of application - and vertical-specific value propositions across enterprise, cloud, and regulated markets. Value proposition & GTM strategy, including creation of technical collateral (whitepapers, sales decks, benchmarks, demo

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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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 building the future of AI compute, and this role will build the talent pipeline that makes it possible. As an Early Talent Recruiter, you will own university and early-career recruiting for your site, shaping which schools we invest in, building relationships with students and faculty, and leading intern, co-op, and new-grad hiring from first outreach through accepted offer. You will not simply run an existing campus calendar. You will decide where to focus, raise the quality of the funnel, and build the recruiting motion that our growing hardware and software teams need. This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Raleigh, NC, or Toronto, ON. 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 owned a full campus recruiting cycle, including school selection, university partnerships, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management, and closing. You use judgment and influence to partner with hiring managers, challenge assumptions when needed, and hold a clear hiring bar without relying on authority. You work from funnel data and can connect measures such as applications, conversi

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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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 senior High Speed Interconnect / Signal Integrity Engineer to design and validate high-bandwidth links for large-scale AI systems. You will define, model, and qualify interconnect solutions across copper and optical technologies for next-generation AI inference and training clusters. This role is on-site in Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, or Toronto, Canada. We welcome candidates at various experience levels. 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 An experienced electrical engineer with a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering. 5+ years working on high-speed communications (100G–1.6T), including signal integrity, channels, and links. Comfortable building and owning link and channel budgets and making clear tradeoffs between reach, loss, BER, and margin. Hands-on with SI tools and lab equipment such as Keysight ADS, VNAs, TDRs, BERTs, and protocol analyzers. Familiar with cable specification and testing, as well as accelerated life testing, mating life, and failure analysis. Able to collaborate across hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams; manufacturing/DFM/DTM experience is a plus. What We Need Define and specify high-speed interconnect architectures

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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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 an exceptional Senior-level Physical Design Engineer to drive top-level implementation of our complex AI and CPU System-on-Chip designs. You'll orchestrate cross-disciplinary collaboration, implementing sophisticated floorplans, power grids, and clock networks while ensuring design closure at the chip level. If you excel at managing the complexity of full-chip physical design and want to deliver next-generation AI hardware, we need your expertise. 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 physical design engineer who thrives on complex, full-chip implementation challenges. Expert at collaborating across disciplines, working effectively with architecture, RTL, and packaging teams. Passionate about optimizing chip-level implementations for power, performance, and area. Detail-oriented professional who drives design closure while maintaining quality and meeting aggressive schedules. What We Need 8+ years of top-level SOC physical design experience on complex, multi-million gate designs. Deep expertise in hierarchic

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence. Job Summary We are looking for an experienced Silicon Test Engineer to join our Product Test and Diagnosis Department (PTD). This is a pivotal role and will involve building a team of engineers to develop System Level Test (SLT) capability within the company. Working closely with a cross-functional team you will implement SLT tests for a family of next generation AI Processors. The ideal candidate should have a focus on quality and demonstrate a good understanding of the importance of production test on the success of a product. T hey will have a proven Functional Test or ATE Test Engineering background, and will have a pragmatic, hands-on and flexible approach to a fast-changing environment. The Team The Product Test and Diagnostics team’s role is to detect and manage hardware defects that arise from the manufacture and use of our products. This covers chips, boards and finished systems and takes place both in the manufacturing sites and in the field. Responsibilities and Duties Managing a team of

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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1671 About the Role We are seeking a Senior Signal Integrity Engineer to develop, validate, and optimize high-speed signaling solutions across blade- and rack-level architectures for advanced compute platforms. This role sits at the intersection of silicon, package, interconnect, board, and system design , with a strong emphasis on hands-on measurement, simulation correlation, and cross-functional technical communication. Key Responsibilities End-to-end signal integrity analysis for blade- and rack-level system architectures. Analyze and optimize high-speed and low-speed I/O interfaces, including PCIe Gen4/5/6, Ethernet, DDR, SerDes, SPI , I2C, etc . and related interconnects. Perform time-domain and frequency-domain simulations using tools such as Ansys HFSS, Keysight ADS, Cadence Sigrity, CST, SPICE , or similar. Support hands-on lab validation using VNA, TDR, BERT, and high-speed oscilloscopes . Correlate simulation results with lab measurements to identify margin gaps, debug issues, and improve design methodology. Collaborate with silicon, package, board, connector, cable, and system design teams to optimize I/O channel performance. Work with interconnect vendors and ODMs to guide board layout, stack-ups, routing rules, and system design decisions. Review schematics, layouts, simulation results, and validation data for blade, backplane, and rack-level hardware. Prepare and communicate clear validation reports, measurement summaries, debug findings, and technical recommendations to internal teams, vendors, and senior technical stakeholders. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field . Strong experience in signal integrity for high-speed digital systems. Hands-on measurement expertise using VNAs, TDRs, BERTs, and high-speed oscilloscopes . Experience measuring and analyzing S-parameters, impedance profiles, eye diagrams, jitter, timing margins, insertion loss, return loss, and cro

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