Field Sales Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within North America, with preference for candidates near Santa Clara, CA; Austin, TX; or Toronto, ON. Access to U.S. export-controlled technology requires eligibility under applicable U.S. export laws.

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

Company

Tenstorrent develops AI platforms combining software models, compilers, hardware platforms, networking, semiconductors, and high-performance RISC-V CPUs.

What you will do

• Collaborate with sales teams and enterprise customers to drive adoption of AI products and solutions.
• Lead pre-sales meetings, technical presentations, and customer workshops to understand challenges and provide effective solutions.
• Translate complex AI and infrastructure concepts for researchers, executives, and other non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide customer feedback to sales operations and product teams to influence roadmap and product enhancements.
• Explore AI performance on custom silicon and support developers in fine-tuning LLMs, optimizing vision models, and building scalable AI pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant technical enterprise experience, such as Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Technical Account Manager.
• Strong customer-facing communication and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with embedded systems, FPGA architecture, or AI accelerators.
• Understanding of data centers, server architecture and deployment, thermal and power considerations, and infrastructure management.
• Eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology is required; citizenship, permanent residency, or prior license approval may be necessary.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with teams building hardware, software, and AI platforms from the ground up.
• Collaborative environment emphasizing curiosity and solving difficult technical problems.
• Competitive compensation package and benefits.
• Opportunities are available across multiple experience levels, with leveling determined during the interview process.