Tenstorrent
Staff Engineer,Post-Silicon Validation
$100K–$500K
Austin, Texas, United States +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States
Santa Clara, California, United States
Austin, Texas, United States
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years; the posting also welcomes candidates at various experience levels, with level assessed during interviews.
- 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.
About the job
Lead post-silicon bring-up, validation, and debug of RISC-V-based SoCs from first silicon through production readiness.
What you'll do
- Lead first-silicon bring-up and execute post-silicon validation plans.
- Debug silicon issues across CPU cores, interconnects, memory subsystems, peripherals, and high-speed interfaces.
- Develop and debug bare-metal tests and boot flows; collaborate on Linux bring-up, driver validation, ECO validation, and fixes for future silicon revisions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in SoC bring-up, validation, and silicon debug.
- Strong grasp of CPU and SoC architectures, including RISC-V privilege modes, caches, coherency, and memory systems.
- Hands-on ability to debug hardware/software interaction issues using lab tools and low-level software.
Pay
$100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets (base and variable compensation; not specified as base salary or total pay).
Tools
RISC-V, Linux
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