Principal CPU Microarchitect - RISC-V & AI Compute

Job summary

Responsibilities

This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Company is required to ensure compliance with these laws when…

• How modern AI models stress CPU architecture and influence design decisions.
• The interplay between compiler design, CPU microarchitecture, and real-world performance.
• How Tenstorrent’s unified hardware-software stack enables breakthrough performance for general-purpose AI compute.

What they're looking for

• Experienced Microarchitect: 10+ years of deep expertise in CPU performance modeling and microarchitecture design.
• AI Workload Expert: Deeply familiar with the computational and memory bottlenecks of modern AI workloads, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Hardware-Software Co-Designer: Driven to architect custom instruction set extensions and validate their performance gains against real-world workloads.
• Ways to stand-out: Familiarity with open-source RISC-V cores, AI-based agentic workflow experience