Drimva

Tenstorrent

Sr. Engineer, Performance Infrastructure (RISC-V)

$100K–$500K

Australia +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026

Location
Australia
Santa Clara, California, United States
Austin, Texas, United States
Santa Clara, California, United States
Visa sponsorship
Employment is contingent on eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology; some candidates may require prior U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency license approval.

About the job

Builds and maintains performance infrastructure for RISC-V hardware and software, enabling automated benchmarking, data analysis, and reproducible workload capture.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain benchmarking automation and CI pipelines for SPEC and real-world workloads across silicon, FPGA/emulation platforms, and performance models.
  • Own SimPoint infrastructure and build performance-data collection, databases, dashboards, and visualization tools.
  • Develop QEMU- and CRIU-based workload capture and replay tooling, collaborating with performance and software engineers to improve their workflows.

What they ask for

  • Strong Linux systems engineering skills, including working with lab machines, clusters, and hardware platforms.
  • Python and shell scripting skills.
  • Experience with CI (GitLab) and containers.
  • Experience automating at scale, including job scheduling, artifact management, databases, and dashboarding.

Nice to have

  • Curiosity about CPU performance.

Pay

$100k - $500k (total pay; including base and variable compensation targets)

Tools

Linux, Python, shell scripting, GitLab, SPEC, QEMU, CRIU, RISC-V

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