Senior Engineer, CPU RTL Design (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in Austin, Texas, or Santa Clara, California, United States

Compensation: $100,000–$500,000, including base and variable compensation targets

Company

Tenstorrent develops AI computing technology and high-performance RISC-V CPUs as part of an integrated AI platform spanning software, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors.

What you will do

• Define CPU microarchitecture and own RTL design for part of a high-performance RISC-V CPU block.
• Implement and optimize RTL using Verilog or VHDL.
• Collaborate with design verification, physical design, performance, validation, and test teams to meet functional, timing, and power goals.
• Run RTL experiments and evaluate power, performance, and area trade-offs.
• Debug RTL and logic across multiple design hierarchies and pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Improve RTL design tools, flows, and development methodologies.

Requirements

• Experience with CPU microarchitecture, including areas such as rename, scheduler, reorder buffer, load/store, branch prediction, cache, or datapath design.
• Strong RTL coding skills with Verilog or VHDL.
• Familiarity with industry-standard simulation, synthesis, and power-analysis tools.
• Experience debugging RTL and logic across multiple design hierarchies and pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Experience defining microarchitecture, writing design specifications, and analyzing performance-driven trade-offs.
• Ability to work in a hybrid setup based in Austin, Texas, or Santa Clara, California. Access to U.S. export-controlled technology may be subject to U.S. export laws and eligibility requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a deeply technical and collaborative CPU design team.
• Gain end-to-end exposure to CPU design from microarchitecture through timing and power convergence.
• Work on both pre-silicon and post-silicon optimization of high-performance CPU designs.
• Integrate open-source and industry-standard tools into RTL development flows.
• Receive a competitive compensation package and benefits.