Software Engineer, Acceleration Kernel Development

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.

• The art of pushing AI hardware to its limits by shaping how kernels are written and executed.
• How to integrate kernel work into ML frameworks and real-world training pipelines.
• Skills in tuning performance on cutting-edge architectures with top-tier hardware engineers.
• Expertise in keeping code lean, reliable, and scalable even under heavy workloads.

What they're looking for

• A developer who loves high performance code, parallel algorithms, wrangling bits, optimizing compute, and making hardware fly.
• Great in C/C++ and able to build fast, efficient code from the ground up.
• Obsessed with performance and precision, especially in ML workloads.
• Motivated by complex problems and thrives in collaborative, fast-moving environments.

Tech stack

• C++