Physical Design CPU Methodology 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 apply AI/ML to physical design for hotspot prediction, congestion forecasting, timing-risk classification, ECO prioritization, IR-drop screening, and flow tuning.
• How to build reliable, explainable, production-ready data infrastructure, including feature collection, validation, and signoff integration.
• How to evaluate AI-enabled EDA capabilities and determine where data-driven optimization delivers measurable value over conventional heuristics.
• How to scale CPU methodology, automation, and AI/ML deployment across advanced-node programs, foundries, teams, and the broader organization.

What they're looking for

• You are an experienced Physical Design Engineer with 10+ years of ASIC/SoC/CPU experience, ideally focused on high-performance CPUs or similarly complex digital designs.
• You bring deep expertise across RTL-to-GDS implementation and signoff, including timing closure, power optimization, SI, EM/IR, extraction, and physical verification.
• You have built or owned physical design methodology, automation, or CAD flows and are highly skilled in Tcl, Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages.
• You are a technical leader who can influence across teams, mentor engineers, and drive standards across geographically distributed organizations.

Tech stack

• Python