Sr. Engineer, Performance Infrastructure (RISC-V)

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.

• End-to-end exposure to CPU performance work, from workload capture through analysis and convergence.
• Hands-on experience with pre-silicon and post-silicon performance platforms — models, emulation, FPGA and real RISC-V hardware.
• Integration of open-source and industry-standard tools into production-grade flows.
• Work in a deeply technical, highly collaborative team solving cutting-edge CPU and AI challenges.

What they're looking for

• Great at identifying problems and developing solutions, with a bias toward owning the systems you build.
• Enjoys building tools and optimizing workflows so other engineers can move faster.
• Strong Linux systems engineer, comfortable wrangling lab machines, clusters and flaky hardware platforms.
• Skilled in Python and shell scripting, with solid CI (GitLab) and container experience.
• Experienced automating at scale — job scheduling, artifact management, databases and dashboarding; curiosity about CPU performance is a plus, deep microarchitecture background is…

Tech stack

• Python