Staff Design Verification Engineer, AI HW

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 Tenstorrent verifies AI-native compute architectures including Tensix cores, RISC-V CPUs, matrix units, vector units, and datapath.
• How simulation, emulation, and software-driven workloads combine to validate both functional correctness and performance.
• How numerical precision formats such as BF16, FP4, and INT8 and on-chip dataflow impact verification complexity and coverage strategy.
• How to build scalable DV infrastructure across hybrid compute environments including containerized regression systems.
• How data analytics and modern AI tooling can enhance verification workflows and accelerate convergence.

What they're looking for

• Experienced in modern verification methodologies with strong SystemVerilog skills and exposure to structured testbench development.
• Comfortable working from block-level to system-level verification and reasoning about microarchitecture behavior from specs and waveforms.
• Proficient in Linux environments with Python, or Bash scripting for automate builds, parse logs, manage CI pipelines.
• Skilled in coverage-driven verification and confident debugging across RTL, testbench, and workload scenarios.
• Motivated by AI hardware and eager to learn verification strategies for new architectures and domains.

Tech stack

• Python