Tenstorrent AI Chip Design Engineer Jobs

Tenstorrent's pitch to chip designers is unusual: the hardware is meant to be programmable first, and a lot of it is open source. The company builds AI inference and training processors around Tensix cores and a mesh network that scales from a single chip up to a rack of them.

It was founded by Jim Keller, whose CPU work runs through AMD Zen, Apple's A4 and A5, and Tesla's self-driving chip, and the team pairs veteran CPU architects with AI hardware engineers.

Tenstorrent AI chip design engineer jobs cover AI core microarchitecture, network-on-chip design, RISC-V host processor implementation, and physical design. Grayskull and Wormhole already shipped; current work runs toward the Galaxy and Blackhole parts. If you have built NoC topologies, integrated DRAM interfaces, or brought up PCIe Gen 5, that experience maps straight onto what these chips need.

The open-source strategy is not a marketing line. Tenstorrent publishes its RISC-V CPU designs and its ML compiler stack, TT-Metalium (formerly tt-llk), so hardware and software co-design happens in the open. Engineers who want a say on both sides at an early stage tend to like that arrangement.

The team is spread across Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Toronto, and Belgrade, Serbia, and it has been hiring quickly after deployment deals with SK Telecom and LG Electronics. Most roles want experienced engineers, though strong new graduates with real RISC-V or AI hardware project work occasionally land junior seats.

Tenstorrent openings sit next to other AI chip design engineer jobs on the board, including RISC-V shops like SiFive and wafer-scale work at Cerebras. Set an alert on SemiDesignJobs and you will hear when a matching Tenstorrent role opens.

FAQ

What AI chips does Tenstorrent hire engineers to design

Engineers have designed the Grayskull and Wormhole AI processors, and current work is on the Galaxy and Blackhole architectures. These chips run AI inference and training in both cloud and edge deployments.

Does Tenstorrent use RISC-V in its AI chip designs

Yes. Tenstorrent uses RISC-V host processors inside its AI chips and backs the open-source RISC-V ecosystem heavily. Engineers on the host core get value from working across both hardware and software.

Is Tenstorrent a good fit for early-career semiconductor engineers

It mostly hires experienced engineers because the AI chip architecture is complex. That said, strong recent graduates with relevant internships or solid RISC-V or AI hardware project portfolios do get hired into junior design roles from time to time.