High Speed AI Interconnect Signal Integrity Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

• How to design and validate interconnects for large-scale AI training and inference clusters, spanning multiple generations of Tenstorrent silicon and systems.
• Practical methodologies for closing SI margins at cutting-edge speeds (up to 1.6T) across diverse media (backplane, copper cable, optics).
• How to translate supplier roadmaps and standards into concrete system requirements and deployment constraints for real customer workloads.
• End-to-end exposure to AI system architecture, from rack-level topology choices down to connector, cable, and transceiver details, in collaboration with world-class AI hardware…

What they're looking for

• 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.