Tenstorrent
Sr. Staff Engineer, IP Runtime
$100K–$500K
Austin, Texas, United States +3 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Austin, Texas, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Experience
- Candidates at various experience levels are welcome; no specific years are stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment is contingent on eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Depending on citizenship or permanent-residency status, prior license approval may be required; offers may be rescinded if employment is not possible under U.S. export laws.
About the job
Defines and implements low-level runtime software that initializes and coordinates custom silicon IP and manages workload execution across processors, accelerators, memory, and data-movement systems.
What you'll do
- Design runtime architecture and components for execution, scheduling, synchronization, and resource management.
- Build hardware initialization, work-dispatch, dependency-coordination, and data-movement paths.
- Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability through hands-on coding, bring-up, and debugging.
What they ask for
- Expert C or C++ engineering experience delivering complex, performance-critical systems.
- Experience working close to hardware in low-level, embedded, bare-metal, or accelerator environments.
- Strong runtime fundamentals, including execution, scheduling, synchronization, memory movement, resource management, and parallelism.
- End-to-end debugging and optimization skills, plus collaboration and technical leadership across teams.
Pay
$100k - $500k (total pay; includes base and variable compensation targets)
Tools
C, C++, RISC-V
AI focus
Runtime software for AI accelerator hardware, including execution control and optimization of model throughput, efficiency, and scalability.
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